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Show School police befriend students vantage in that they have a reserve police officer on the Layton City Police Force teaching criminal law and sociology at the school. Frank Cline's primary job is teaching school, but he is also able to back up law enforcement. He carries a radio so he can be available when necessary. He also helps with the discipline of violations. Resource officers, Julie Wilcox and Brad Jensen, work with Bountiful Boun-tiful and Viewmont high schools. They both work a 40-hour shift on the road as patrol officers and then spend four to six hours a week in the schools. Attending to public relations, answering an-swering questions, identifying problems prob-lems and building a good rapport with the police is the main goal of these enforcement officers. They spend many weekend hours attending dances, basketball and football games to observe and enforce en-force the law. BY JAMS CARTER AND DONETA GATHERUM Schools around the country have incorporated police officers as school resource officers to observe, teach and discipline when necessary in the schools on a daily andor weekly basis. Ray Gibbons, school resource officer in Layton, spends about 40 hours a week in the schools. In the elementary schools teaching safety is his main goal. He also helps at school crossings. At the high school and junior high level, he handles discipline problems. Many students do not realize it is against the law to fight or to possess drugs and alcohol. Smoking is also a violation. Students caught smoking have the opportunity to attend Cessation Classes offered through the district. Students going to the classes can have their fine reduced by $15. programs using deputy sheriffs in their schools. Salt Lake City probably has the most sophisticated enforcement officer program in the state. The first program in Salt Lake started about 20 years ago when off-duty officers were employed by the school district as part-time school officers. The present program started 15 years ago when full-time police officers, employed by the police department, were assigned to the high schools and junior high in the city. At the present time, there are five officers working in schools-one schools-one at each of the high schools and two at North West and Glendale junior ju-nior highs. The police officer is at the school at all times to act on any emergency. emergen-cy. The officer becomes familiar with the students, and the students know and relate to the officer. Advantages of this program are many. Vandalism and damage to school properties have noticeably decreased. The school teaching staff and administration are relieved from spending time with many discipline problems. The students and faculty are provided with better personal and property security. The presence of a police officer is a deterrent de-terrent to potential problems. Probably the best outcome of this program is the relationship that develops de-velops between the police officer and the students. Friendship and respect are quickly established. The officers working in the school, the faculty and the students all feel this officer-in-the-school program is beneficial. No matter what approach the school, district or city chooses to take, the cooperation between law enforcement and educators is important. im-portant. Schools and communities with good programs are benefiting through decreases in vandalism, fighting, smoking and alcohol arrests ar-rests and gang problems. Other communities and schools are studying study-ing the advantages of a good enforcement en-forcement officer program and trying try-ing to incorporate them into their school programs. They talk to students about drugs and alcohol and work with the students on a friendship-type basis. In the future Wilcox and Jensen will be expanding their services to Mueller Park, Millcreek, South Davis and Bountiful junior high schools. The Kaysville police department is taking a different approach at the relationship between law enforcement enforce-ment and schools. The target group in Kaysville is the sixth graders. An officer with special training in the DARE program, a self-esteem, self-esteem, self-control drug and alcohol awareness program, teaches a special course in the sixth grade classes. During the time the program pro-gram is being taught, the officer stays in the school, going out on the playground at recesses and eating in the school cafeteria. The students become familiar with this officer who is a role model for them to follow. The police department also uses a remote-control remote-control car to help teach young people about safety, drug abstinence, absti-nence, child abuse and other police-related police-related messages. Granite and Jordan school districts have enforcement officer According to Gibbons, Layton High has the best officer resource program dealing with drugs and alcohol. Classes are offered at the school to help re-adjust the students to school and to help them stay off drugs. In a three-day retreat, before the beginning of school, the faculty is trained to teach the classes. They learn through role plays and speakers. They also learn district policies dealing with drugs and alcohol. By taking these classes, students know what they can expect if they are caught smoking on campus. It is an automatic- suspension, then the law enforcement office is called in. Students also lose curricular activities ac-tivities privileges for two weeks for a first offense, six weeks for a second se-cond offense and one year for a third offense. Gibbons is well-known by students around the Layton community. com-munity. He has a good rapport with them. He follows through with the offenders, making sure they are attending at-tending classes and doing what he can so they will not violate the law again. Layton High School has an ad- |