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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Along with students, school resource officers are preparing for the start of the school year.
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The biggest responsibility of the SROs is keeping students safe during a threat.
“Threats to schools are ever evolving,” said Kendrick Scott, the senior director of security for the Wake County Public School System. “They’re constantly changing.”
Those evolving threats are why dozens of school resource officers from schools across Wake County were at Millbrook Magnet High School Tuesday.
The annual SRO Summit gets everyone on the same page regarding prevention and response to threats.
“Different things are coming around,” Scott said. “If you don’t improve your responses to those things, you’ll be stuck responding to something with outdated process.”
The district’s updated standard response protocol is a focus of conversations this year. The emergency protocol replaces the previous school lockdown system that included terms like code red, yellow, and green.
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Standard response protocol provides instructions of either hold, secure, lockdown, evacuate, or shelter.
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“It helps take away some of that anxiety of hearing the words ‘code red’ because once you hear that, typically people go to a bad place,” Scott said. “They think something really bad is happening when that may not necessarily be the case.”
Along with new safety language, the district is going into its second school year using a more secure visitor check in system and panic button apps. Keeping students safe ultimately relies on collaboration with school staff and building relationships with students.
“Today is really functioning as a lesson of building and collaboration of that relationship,” Scott said.
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