More Phoenix-area schools say they want school resource officers (SROs) on campus this year, but the city is struggling to provide them.
On July 3, the Phoenix City Council voted to extend contracts with their current school resource officers, but the number of new schools wanting them on campuses far exceeds the actual amount of officers available.The funding approved by the council will go toward renewing current contracts for 64 school resource officers used across 71 schools. At least 9 additional school districts now want their own SROs on campus.
"If we were to fulfill those requests on a one-to-one model, we would need the three additional officers to fill the existing four SRO slots. Then we would also need an additional 46 officers to fill the new requests," a speaker at the council meeting said. "If we're talking 46 positions, that's four squads, ten officer squads, and that would be incredibly challenging," Executive Assistant Chief Sean Patrick Connolly said. "It would require us to take a huge step back in the things that we're doing and really look at what we would have to stop doing to be able to add 40 additional officers to the patrol division in the SRO program.
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