|Office of Community Oriented Policing Services U.S. Department
of Justice A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding
With Your School Resource Officer Program Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS), July 2005. Many SRO programs
have experienced difficulty recruiting, screening, retaining,
training, and supervising SROs. This new COPS report documents
promising methods that selected SRO programs have used to
address these potential problem areas of SRO program operations.
The information in the report is intended to enable other SRO
programs-and jurisdictions that are thinking of starting SRO
programs-to benefit from the experiences of these selected
programs by adopting or adapting some of their approaches to
establishing and maintaining a successful program. Blueprints
for Violence Prevention Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), July 2001. Through the
Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides
information to communities on a broad array of