Belmont Selectmen To Push for Return of School Resource Officer
In light of Sandy Hook, members seeking way, funds to reinstate an officer at Belmont High School.
Board of Selectmen Chairman Mark Paolillo remembers when his father, former Cambridge Police Chief Anthony Paolillo, first assigned a school resource officer – an unarmed uniformed police officer – at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in the 1980s. "It was a great addition to the school and he felt they were able to resolve many potential issues," said Paolillo. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings Friday that left 26 students and teachers along with the gunman dead at the school, Paolillo and the other members of the Board of Selectmen – Andy Rojas and Ralph Jones – indicated that restoring a school resource officer to at least Belmont High School would be high on their list of priorities for this budgetary …
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10:54 am on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
That will work in a year or two after everyone has a say but what about now?? The High school is like an open book, anyone can come and go and noone seems to notice or care, and there's talk of an "open campus" they seem to have lots of freedom as it is!! I feel by the time everyone hashes out their opinion the need for this will be deminished and down played. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE … more ›