Welcome to the School Resource Officer page. School Resource Officers (SRO’s) serve as comprehensive resources in the schools to which they are assigned. A SRO is a certified law enforcement officer who is permanently assigned to a school. The SRO is specifically trained to perform three roles: law enforcement officer; law-related counselor; and law-related teacher. The SRO is not an officer who has been placed temporarily in a school in response to a crisis situation but rather acts as a comprehensive resource for his/her school.
Currently Parkville High School has two School Resource Officers. This is due to the fact that Parkville High School is the second largest school in Baltimore County (2000 students enrolled). The two SRO’s are Officer Tony Barr, a 23-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department and Officer Jody Drescher, a 9-year veteran of the police department. Officer Barr has been at Parkville High School for the past 5 years, since 2000. Officer Drescher came to the high school in 2003.
Officers Barr and Drescher are very fond of the job they do every day. While they are always law enforcement officers, they spend many hours teaching lesson plans that they have created. They both enjoy the one on one interaction they have with the students they teach and both feel that the trusting relationships they have built with the students enables them to be able to ask the officers personal questions that would normally not be asked of the average police officer. However, Officers Barr and Drescher do not end their tours of duty when the school bell rings. Both officers frequently attend sporting events, school dances and plays, as well as graduation at the end of the year. It is during these events that the students get to see the officers as "ordinary people" rather than as police officers.
Officers Barr and Drescher work very closely with the Parkville High School Administrative Staff to help create a safe and positive environment in which the students can learn.
If you need to contact either Officer Tony Barr or Officer Jody Drescher for any reason, you may contact them at the school at 410-887-5257 or you can stop by the main office at Parkville High School and request to speak with them in person.
Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, Parkville Precinct is pleased to welcome two new School Resource Officers who have been assigned to the area middle schools. Officer Jeff Ward, a 19-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, has been assigned as the School Resource Officer at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology. Officer Ward has been at Parkville Middle for the past 9 years as the Drug Abuse and Resistance Education (DARE) Officer. Officer Lindy Hall, an 13-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, has been assigned as the School Resource Officer at Pine Grove Middle School. Officer Hall has been at Pine Grove Middle School for the past 8 years as the DARE Officer.
Both Officer Ward and Officer Hall enjoy their current assignments at their schools. While their primary responsibility at the school is as a law enforcement officer, both still spend many hours teaching the DARE Program. They have both had close interaction with the students over the years and have established great relationships where students are able to ask questions of them that they would not normally ask of the average patrol officer. Both Officer Ward and Officer Hall attend sporting events, teen nights, concerts, plays and other school events to further enhance the student/officer relationship.
Officer Ward and Officer Hall both work very closely with the Administrative Staffs at their respective schools to help create a safe and positive environment in which the students can learn and be successful.
If you need to contact Officer Jeff Ward at Parkville Middle School, you may contact him at the school at 410-887-5250. If you need to contact Officer Lindy Hall at Pine Grove Middle School, you may contact her at the school at 410-887-5270. You can also stop by the main office at either school and request to speak with either officer in person.
Revised August 8, 2006
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