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The Frankfort Police Department has signed a new agreement with the Community Schools of Frankfort to ensure city-funded school resource officers are in Frankfort school buildings through the 2025 school year. The original agreement, signed in 2018, had ended in 2021, but was extended a year. The agreement provides for two Frankfort Police Officers to cover Suncrest and Green Meadows/Blue Ridge Elementary Schools. The new agreement is designed to continue year-to-year extending beyond 2025.
While off-duty Frankfort Police Officers have been involved with the schools since 2000, the agreement provides that the City of Frankfort fund two officers while the Community Schools of Frankfort provides the funding for off-duty officers at Frankfort Middle School and Frankfort High School. There are nine officers employed by the school system. Frankfort Police will continue to have Officer Robert Hession full-time at Green Meadows/Blue Ridge and Officer Mark Schilling at Suncrest. If either officer is absent, the city will provide another officer during school hours.
Chief Scott Shoemaker and School Superintendent Dr. Matt Rhoda have also agreed that no school resource officer will leave the building for any reason. In consultation with Clinton County Prosecutor Anthony Sommer, a new plan was designed to process attendance letters delivered to parents for the 2022-2023 school year.
Officers Hession and Schilling are now advanced school resource officers and will be certified ALICE instructors as of July 15, 2022. ALICE Active Shooter Training (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) provides organizations with the tools to support school training plans, perform school safety drills and exercises, and certify K-12 School staff.
For more information on ALICE visit- https://www.alicetraining.com/our-program/alice-training/k12-education/