GCPD Awarded $545K Grant To Hire 5 New School Resource Officers

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. – The Goose Creek Police Department was recently awarded the 2024 – 2025 School Resource Officer Grant from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety. This will be the fourth consecutive year that GCPD has received this grant.

The grant award amount, $544,886, will fund five full-time school resource officers and purchase equipment for the officers, GCPD officials said.

According to SCDPS, the purpose of the SRO Program is to fund full-time certified law enforcement officers to serve as SROs in schools that otherwise would lack the adequate resources to hire their own SROs.

The program funds may be used to pay for the salary and employer contributions (fringe benefits), as
well as law enforcement equipment and training for new and existing state-funded SROs based on
a documented need.

Requests for new state-funded SROs is limited to schools without one. Program funds are not available to provide a second SRO to a school or replace locally-funded SROs.

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