Sentences with phrase «more armed officers»

The calls for more armed officers in schools is one side of the many argued nationally about gun control in America following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 which claimed the lives of 17 people.

Not exact matches

Not in Mexico, where neighbouring state Michoacan has become a battleground, with armed vigilantes battling the Knights Templar drug cartel and a federal investigation into the possible corruption of more than 1,200 local police officers.

Following the news that armed police officers will be placed outside Canterbury Cathedral, Sam Hailes... More

- Do we need more admirals than ships and more officers in our forces than our international counterparts at a time when frontline armed forces are under pressure?

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

In spite of this, the military seems much more behind the revolution than it was in 2002; in a choreographed move, all of the generals and leading officers of the armed forces announced their support for the government immediately after Maduro announced Chávez's passing.

More than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, searched neighborhoods near Central Michigan University on Friday for a 19 - year - old student suspected of killing his parents at a dormitory and then running from campus.

The measures would also make it easier for retired law enforcement officials to become armed guards at schools, known as school resource officers, and to be paid more money.

What isn't clear yet is who would foot the bill for placing an armed officer at each of the more than 6,700 public and private school buildings.

The state Sheriffs» Association also called for more state aid for armed officers at schools.

Stoneman Douglas High School, which has more than 3,000 students, had one armed resource officer who never entered the building while a gunman was killing people inside, officials said.

The EFCC had commenced investigating Azibaola last year sequel to a list sent to the commission by a committee set up by the Federal Government to probe contracts awarded by the ONSA from 2011 to 2015 which indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, including serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Murabito said more than half of community colleges in the state now employ peace officers, who are armed and have full police powers, but only on campus.

The budget also has $ 67 million for arming school staff, $ 8 million in pay raises for juvenile detention and probation officers and a 36 percent pay increase for Florida Supreme Court justices who will now make more than $ 220,000 annually.

«There are probably many things we could do to make our schools safer, including having more trained law enforcement personnel in our schools as resource officers, but the Lieutenant Governor does not believe that we should require other school personnel to be armed,» Ibbie Hedrick, deputy chief of staff for Bolling, said via e-mail.

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There are more than 3,500 iRobot devices serving in the U.S. military as well as the armed forces of another 20 allied countries, says Joseph Dyer, iRobot's chief operating officer and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral.

An Education Week analysis of more than 450 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in U.S. history found that legislators have proposed solutions that include arming teachers, adding guards or police officers, and shoring up the security of school buildings.

More headteachers are opting to arm school crossing patrol officers with body cameras to clamp down on dangerous driving during the school run.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

If implemented, that would mean 800,000 more armed adults in schools, which would only add to the numbers of school shootings by teachers, principals, school officers, and law enforcement.

Also one very, very bad idea: procedures to arm more teachers and school officers.

Ivey says he's worried the debate about arming school employees is overshadowing the more important need for resource officers in every school.

So, for example, instead of just utilizing money to arm police officers in schools, we also are allowing individual school communities to make decisions about putting more mental health for students, to provide advocacy in the support system and not just move kids out of school or automatically engage them in the judicial system that we know can happen too often.

Counties opting out of the provision to arms teachers could redirect those funds to hire more school officers, Scott said.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: The Atlantic: The Push for Harsher School Discipline After Parkland WSJ: Lawmakers Focus on Obama - Era Policies After Florida School Shooting VOSD: «Restorative Justice» Can Make Schools More Violent if Not Done Right AP: Armed security officers are on the rise in US schools [see also EdWeek] Texas Tribune: TX schools suspended thousands of younger students, report says

North Carolina legislators, other sheriffs from around the state, local police chiefs, the school superintendent, school board members and more joined Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page for a press conference this afternoon promoting the proposed armed volunteer school resource officer program.

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm — ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

Simply put, we take being military officers (in the traditional combat arms sense) more seriously than the other services.

Senate Bill 7026 — dubbed the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act» — would also give law enforcement more power to seize weapons and ammunition from those deemed mentally unfit and provide additional funding for mental health services and armed school resource officers.

It would give law enforcement more power to seize weapons and ammunition from those deemed mentally unfit and provide additional funding for mental health services and armed school resource officers.

Rather than arming teachers, she said she would rather see money spent to reinforce school buildings with bulletproof windows and doors, to free up guidance counselors from testing duties and to hire more trained and armed school resource officers to guard campuses.

More students streamed out in lines, with arms raised, after officers searched every room, every closet, every cabinet, for any further threat that could endanger children as they were exiting.

The Legislature is also considering numerous general school security measures that were prompted by the shooting, including paying for more campus police officers and mental health services, raising the age of buying a rifle to 21 and allowing districts to arm teachers and other staff.

The bill also would give law enforcement more power to seize weapons and ammunition from those deemed mentally unfit and provide more funding for mental health services and armed school resource officers.

Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, which has more than 3,000 students, had one armed resource officer who never entered the building under attack while a gunman was shooting people inside, officials said.

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Security's Alternate Accountability Officer, through meticulous attention to detail was able to maintain 100 percent accountability and or maintenance of more than $ 2M of ammunitions, arms, explosives and equipment.

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