Post by tcrashfx on May 7, 2007 6:37:04 GMT -5
Monday, May 07, 2007
By Dick Cook
Staff Writer
By Dick Cook
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Bradley County Sheriff Tim Gobble will ask the County Commission for $1.2 million in next year's budget to put 17 school resource officers in county schools.
"It's a good program, a program I fully support," Sheriff Gobble said last week. "Evidence of that is the financial commitment made and the manpower commitment we've made in asking for an additional school resource officer."
Sheriff Gobble also is asking for more money for additional officers. He said there are twice as many SROs as first-shift patrol deputies.
Early in his administration, there was some discussion about having SROs do limited patrols in neighborhoods around their schools. The discussion didn't get very far, he said, as the department was "absolutely flooded with phone calls" from people opposing any restructuring of SROs duties.