Originally Posted by kane

I know the officer that is the SRO at my old school is an actual regular cop, but typically they are newer officers who just get assigned the job and don't volunteer for it. For about five years they had the same guy doing it and he really liked it. Often times the kids would come to him for advice. All the kids knew who he was and he made it a point to know everyone's name and talk to as many kids as he could in a given day. It was a good situation for everyone.

That office ended up getting a job at a different police department in a different city and moved. Since then they have had a few different officers do it. They would like to hire someone specifically for that job, but budget cuts in the last few years with the recession hasn't allowed that to happen.