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June 6, 2014School Resource Officer 28e Agreement • June 6th, 2014 • Iowa
The Fort Dodge Police Department has had a presence in our local school community for many years. Throughout my career I have seen the value of developing critical relationships with students, staff and administration. As was discussed at the United Way/Community Foundation Appreciation Luncheon, “Our children are 20 percent of the population, but they are 100 percent of our future.” That rings so true in our schools and the relationships we begin by having a presence in them. Based upon that view we realigned staff approximately four years ago and assigned Sgt. Chuck Guthrie as the full time School Resource Officer (SRO). The return on that investment was seen almost immediately. School administration had a ready resource to turn to bridge the gap between administrative issues and law violations. Additionally, students had another positive role model – one they could turn to and one that would help build the relationship they would have as they grew to adults in our community. He was
