An Introduction to SRO Programs, a 3-hour eLearning course, directly supports the mission of the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) to provide the “highest quality of training to school-based law enforcement officers.” This course provides an overview of school-based law enforcement programs and illuminates the critical need for further SRO training.
The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a 40-hour training designed to prepare school resource officers, other law enforcement officers, and school safety professionals to fulfill their roles in the school setting effectively.
Featured Publication
Guiding Principles for School Resource Officer Programs
September 2022
This publication presents additional principles and considerations to guide the COPS Office’s work relating to school resource officers (SROs) and jurisdictions choosing to implement SRO programs.
Recognizing the importance of pre-arrest and pre-court diversions in reducing youth involvement in the justice system, this Knowledge College session focused on improving awareness around diversion strategies and their implementation in school settings.
This webpage contains tools to assist with creating a comprehensive school safety program.
Featured Webinar
Student Engagement: Building Positive Relationships to Improve School Safety
April 2024
An essential role of school resource officers and other school-based security professionals is providing a safe and secure environment that promotes student success. This webinar explores the correlation between student engagement and school safety while uplifting practical strategies to improve engagement, including the application of cultural intelligence and trauma-informed responses.
In this report, the COPS Office’s School Safety Working Group identifies 10 essential things schools, school districts, and law enforcement agencies can do to mitigate and prevent school violence as well as to facilitate swift and effective law enforcement assistance when it is necessary.
This six-part video series addresses a variety of topics for school resource officers, including how to clarify your role and authority with school leadership, getting to know the staff and students, the importance of knowing your building inside and out, and how to become an immediate presence in your new community.
This report is an analysis of violence in schools in the 2022–2023 school year.
This website contains various active shooter safety resources.
Adolescent Mental Health Training for School Resource Officers and Educators is designed to help school resource officers and school personnel to better identify and respond to students who are suspected of having mental health needs.
The Advanced School Resource Officer Course is a 24-hour block of instruction designed for any law enforcement officer working in an educational environment. This course, following the SRO Triad model, advances the SRO’s knowledge and skills as a law enforcement officer, informal counselor, and educator.
This report examines 67 disrupted plots by current or former students against K–12 schools from 2006–2018. The findings should be utilized by schools and their surrounding communities to help intervene earlier and more effectively with students in distress.
Beyond the Badge: Profile of a School Resource Officer follows Officer Cockrell during a school day at Central Middle School in Riverview Gardens, six months after the police shooting and protests that left North St. Louis County reeling. The story focuses on Cockrell’s efforts to build relationships, listen to students address fear of the police in a school town hall, mentor young people on how to deal with conflicts, and work with his colleagues to respond and support a student whose father is
This website contains data and reports produced by the National Center for Education Statistics on the topic of school crime and safety.
This article discusses how school resource officers can play a role in identifying human trafficking victims among the student body in which they serve.
This documentary explores the issue of school shootings and what schools, parents, and law enforcement can do to help prevent these attacks.
This webinar focuses on how to find partners that best suit your school safety program goals and determine when in the planning process to connect with them. Presenters also discuss how to define scopes of work, develop an outreach strategy, conduct an evaluation, and successfully implement a program.
The guide provides schools and communities with a framework to identify students of concern, assess their risk for engaging in violence, and identify intervention strategies to mitigate that risk.
This webinar reviews the essential features of school threat assessment, how and when it should occur, and how it differs from other forms of threat assessment.
As a stand-alone training, this session considers Anonymous Reporting Systems (ARS) and their impact on school climate.
This webpage contains statistics related to school crime.
This publication results from an ongoing collaboration between the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education. Its goals are to determine whether it could have been known that incidents of targeted violence at schools were being planned and whether anything could have been done to prevent them from occurring.
This webinar highlights the history and philosophy of anonymous reporting systems (ARS), their essential components, and how to effectively adopt and maintain ARSs in their schools.
Publication
Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans
June 2013
This guide is designed to help individual schools and school districts develop and update emergency operations plans in response to potential emergencies.
Publication
Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
May 2002
This document uses findings from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Secret Service to create a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools.
In this interactive series, a multi-disciplinary group of experts come together to share their diverse perspectives on the various facets of school climate. Throughout this four-part series, each session will consist of an expert-led panel followed by an interactive roundtable in which participants have an opportunity to engage with the topic experts and one another.
This FBI-produced documentary focuses on best practices after school shooting tragedies, including family reunification, dealing with accompanying trauma, and crisis planning. It highlights the difficult journey of recovery while also giving hope to survivors.
This website includes open-source school shooting data.
This fact sheet serves as a guide for law enforcement agencies and schools on how to develop a Memorandum of Understanding that clearly documents the roles, responsibilities, and expectations of the individuals and partners involved in supporting school safety.
This article provides recommendations and resources to help schools establish protocols for online safety for K–12 students.
This webinar introduces a trauma-informed approach toward the escalation and de-escalation cycle including strategies for responding to behaviors at the various levels and ways to remain calm and be present with a student during an incident.
This study aimed to further the prevention of targeted school-based attacks by exploring how students with prior knowledge of attacks made decisions regarding what steps, if any, to take after learning the information.
This training provides an overview of “Project Unite: The Four Integrated Systems for School Violence Prevention,” instruction on each key violence prevention system and best practices for implementation. Modules include group discussion and team exercises to assist multidisciplinary school safety teams as they assess their current school safety systems and identify gaps and areas for improvement.
This report examines 41 attacks against K–12 schools in the United States from 2008 to 2017, and the backgrounds and behaviors of the attackers, in order to inform the best practices of multidisciplinary school threat assessment programs nationwide.
This website provides resources, tools, training, and technical assistance aimed at helping education agencies, with their community partners, manage safety, security, and emergency management programs.
The Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2022 provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report serves as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention.
This template is designed for principals and school leaders to use to engage with parents and families about the importance of safe firearm storage.
CPTED (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) uses design, management, and activity strategies to reduce opportunities for crime to occur, reduce fear, and improve the overall safety of schools. The course will include a hands-on CPTED evaluation of a school and attendees will be provided with tools to use on their school campuses or in their associated activities with school safety.
The School Safety Officer Course is for non-sworn safety and security officers working in schools with an SRO or solo. The course will emphasize three main areas of instruction: functioning as a security officer in the school setting, working effectively with students, and school safety and emergency planning.
This First Look report presents findings from the 2021–2022 School Survey on Crime and Safety data collection.
SRO Supervisors and Management course is for police supervisors and school administrators who have the responsibility of implementing, supervising, managing, and evaluating school-based police officers and/or programs.
The purpose of this guide is to help law enforcement agency leaders and strategic communications advisors develop the necessary knowledge and skill to create strategic communications plans to help build and maintain community trust.
This website provides various resources to school resource officers in their efforts to support school safety.
This article discusses research on false reports of active shooters in the 2022–2023 school year.
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