School Security Division Page Metropolitan Police Department Roles and Responsibilities Lieutenant Roles and Responsibilities Lieutenant, School Safety Division. These three lieutenants are assigned to geographic responsibilities within the Division. Each official will provide functional supervision to all School Resource Officer Coordinators (SROCs). They will also be tasked with monitoring contract security services and remedying any discrepancies, in coordination with MPD’s Contract Monitoring Unit. Sergeant Roles and Responsibilities Sergeants will provide first-line supervision to the School Resource Officers in specific police districts. They will ensure the SROs receive information about any significant incidents that could occur in the schools to which they are assigned. They will notify the Lieutenant and District Commander and/or Watch Commander of any significant incident or crime that occurs in or immediately around schools. The Sergeants will provide the necessary communications link between other police district officials and the SROs during incidents with in the schools or in preventing spillover events. They will be responsible for providing direction and monitoring of the contract security personnel and may act to remedy deficiencies by coordinating with the contracted officers assigned to the various schools, or the Cluster Supervisor. School Resource Officer (SRO) Roles and Responsibilities School Resource Officers are MPD officers assigned to individual schools as the primary point of contact for day-to-day school security services at that school. Under this arrangement they are assigned to the School Security Division and detailed to the PSA that contains that assigned school. |
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