Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Kirkwood Board of Education approved hiring two more school resource officers from the Kirkwood Police Department.
Kirkwood School District will be adding two school resource officers (SRO) from the Kirkwood Police Department beginning in the 2013-2014 school year. The Kirkwood Board of Education approved the hiring at the March meeting. The school district currently has two full-time SROs covering nine attendance areas, Superintendent Tom Williams said at the meeting. "It goes along with some of our other efforts to improve safety and security," Williams said. He added recent projects include improving entrances at Tillman and Westchester Elementary Schools, digital radios for buildings, and ALICE Active Shooter training. Cost for the additional hires would be split with the City of Kirkwood 75 percent and 25 percent. Williams said Police Chief Jack …
Monday, February 11, 2013
The board voted to make the hiring at meeting Feb. 4. The post has been vacant since 2011.
With school districts around the country developing plans to improve school safety, the Kirkwood School Board voted at a meeting Monday to hire a new coordinator of safety and security, a position that has been vacant for almost two years. According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the position had most recently been held by Mike Bales, who left in 2011 due to illness. Board members said Bales had already put in place many security measures, but the position needed to be filled in light of incidents like the massacre at an elementary school in Newton, Conn., last year. Read the full story on STLtoday.com here. Kirkwood is also part of the Safe Schools Partnership, which has had several recent meetings organized by the St. Louis …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Law enforcement and school district officials shared area crises plans at a Safe Schools Partnership meeting Thursday. Police-led training could be provided to teachers and administrators.
St. Louis area police and school administrators are taking security measures in schools to the next level, even to the point of perhaps conducting training for teachers about how to disarm intruders and negotiate with shooters who invade schools. St. Louis County Police Department officers and members of the Safe Schools Partnership met Thursday morning at the Rockwood School District Administrative Annex in Eureka to continue discussions about how to bolster future safety in schools. St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch said police teams are offering to survey the crises and emergency plans for the corresponding schools they service, especially to ensure everyone involved is operating from the same premises. "This meeting was about …
Matt Frey
1:07 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Heartland Ninjutsu, located in Immaculate Conception Parish Hall, in Maplewood is still offering a free month of active shooter and disarmament training for teachers and administrators. @Stephanie: We'll extend the offer to you too. We teach very practical self-protection skills, including disarms. My partner and I both work in security and he's also an ex-cop. We've used this stuff. We know what… more ›