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Copper Canyon High re-ups campus police officer for next school year
Cost to city of Glendale reduced
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Copper Canyon High School in Glendale is renewing the contract for its police officer on campus for the 2020-21 school year.
The Tolleson Union High School District was recently renewed for another three years of state grant funding for the school resource officer, lessening Glendale’s share of the salary for the Glendale police officer stationed on Copper Canyon’s campus.
State funding is now covering 92% of the officer’s $141,000 salary, leaving Glendale to cover the remaining $11,750, or 8%. During the prior three years, Glendale was responsible for 12% of the officer’s salary.
The school resource officer is meant to serve as a liaison between the school and the police department, promoting crime prevention and police/community relationships in the school and with other groups that had a potential impact on juvenile crime, according to a city staff report. The position includes educating students and school personnel with information about topics such as dealing with peer pressure, child abuse, gangs, drug awareness.
Copper Canyon High School is located northwest of 91st Avenue and Camelback Road. It is the only Tolleson Union high school in Glendale.
