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Regina’s student resource officer program, which sees uniformed police present in schools, is being reviewed by the Regina Police Service and the city’s school divisions.
There do not appear to be plans for a similar joint review in Saskatoon.
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The presence of police in schools came into focus last summer following the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin while he was on duty.
Amid the North America-wide reckoning on race that has ensued, the question of whether or not to cut ties with police or to have them regularly present in schools has been raised in school districts in Canada and the U.S.
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Const. Kim Carroll recalls a young girl she once had some interaction with during her job as a police officer.
Now a school resource officer (SRO), Carroll found out the girl now a teenager was a student at one of the schools where the constable works.
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“She remembered me,” Carroll says. “It’s really helped her in coming to talk to me about things that are going on at home … I think we all have success stories.”