The English-language public school board serving Windsor-Essex is seeking the community's input on community police programs.
The Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) has begun a review of its community police plan. With restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, those programs had mostly been on hold for the past two years.
The board has hired Logical Outcomes to conduct a survey and provide recommendations that come out of it.
"In this review, 'Community Police Presence and Programs' includes Grade 6 Values Influences and Peers (VIP), Grade 9 Bullying Relationships Alcohol and Drugs (B-RAD), other police-led presentations, and the 'High School Resource Officer (SRO)' who visits area high schools," read the survey. "The SRO may give presentations, speak to classrooms, socialize with students in the hallways, attend school events, and more. Every few years, each school is assigned a new SRO."
Students, staff, teachers, and members of the public board community are encouraged to provide their input.
The survey is anonymous and can be accessed through Friday, November 4.
