School Resource Officer

NASRO

The Holland Police Department participates in the Tantasqua Regional School District School Resource Officer Program which began in November of 2019. This program is a unique approach to the School Resource Officer model and is intended to unify the SRO’s from the 5 towns in the district.

Under this program the trained SRO’s from the different towns have the ability to work together as one unit and develop their safety and resource programs in a manner which encompasses the ENTIRE school district. This is important to ensure that each individual school has a similar SRO concept in place. As most of the students who attend Brimfield, Brookfield, Burgess, Holland and Wales Elementary Schools will ultimately end up at Tantasqua JR High and Tantasqua High School, it is important for our programming to be consistent and important for all SRO’s to have the ability to integrate themselves into the other schools.

Lieutenant S. Patrick Swain and Officer Vincent Sullivan successfully completed a challenging week long School Resource Officer training that was held in Hanson MA the week of November 11th, 2019. This training was conducted by the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). The Holland Police department has set aside approximately 300 hours in total to be utilized for SRO purposes which will allow our SRO’s to dedicate approximately 10 hours of time each week when school is in session for the remainder of the FY20 school year.

This program was endorsed by the district’s administration in September of 2018 and the funding was approved in the FY20 school budget and is in addition to our already allocated patrol hours. In other words, the SRO duties will not take away from our regular police functions. We look forward to a continued relationship with the school district and with the Brimfield, Brookfield, Sturbridge and Wales Police Departments. Please feel free to reach out to one of our SRO's via voicemail or email. 

Lt. S. Patrick Swain
VM: (413) 245-0117 ext. 339
 
Officer Vincent Sullivan
VM: (413) 245-0117 ext. 337