Assist campus teams in planning for crisis, implementing procdures and follow up to crisis.

Prevent injury to students, staff and faculty.

Adequately provide information on how to care for the injured or nortification of parents in times of crisis.

Provide knowledge on how prevent damage to school property.

Assist in the preparation of information to news media and the general public.  

Local law enforcement agencies have been asked to play an increasingly prominent role in ensuring school safety. Youth violence, gangs, and drugs are important issues not only for federal and local policy makers, but for school administrators, parents, and students as well. The community policing philosophy has become a critical element to making schools safer in the 21st Century. State and local law enforcement agencies are bringing community policing to schools:

• Hiring school resource officers (SROs) who utilize a community oriented policing philosophy.
• Engaging in student training programs proven to reduce violence and drug use and reinforce student conflict resolution skills.
• Developing early warning systems that can alert school administrators and SROs to potentially problematic students and geographic areas within schools.
• Using problem solving skills to develop innovative solutions to local school problems, including gangs, drugs, loitering, disorderly conduct, fights, larceny, and vandalism.
• Collecting and analyzing data using a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional data sources (such as suspensions, dropout rates, calls for service, GPA, attendance, and parent and counselor information) to study school safety problems.
• Developing partnerships with parents, local businesses, school bus drivers, school officials, and students to develop outcome-based solutions to school safety problems.
• Mentoring students and exposing them to positive role models.