Effective school resource officers require careful selection and special training, NASRO director of operations Mac Hardy explained to Emergency Management magazine. It’s a specialized form of police work that isn’t appropriate for every law enforcement officer. Hardy told the magazine what agencies should look for — and avoid — when carefully selecting law enforcement officers for school resource officer positions.
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