Welcome to 2025-2026 school year!
With the coming of a new school year, your Fort Collins Police School Resource Officers wanted to take a moment to introduce our program. Our SRO program began in Fort Collins in 1995 as a result of a partnership between Fort Collins Police Services and the Poudre School District.
We have three basic goals:
Provide a safe learning environment and help reduce school violence.
Improve school/law enforcement collaboration.
And to improve the perceptions and relations between students, staff, and law enforcement officials.
Currently the FCPS SRO team is comprised of 11 officers, 2 corporals, and 1 sergeant who oversees the SRO Program. These 11 officers have responsibilities for all 38 PSD schools within the City of Fort Collins limits, and with our partners from Larimer County Sheriff’s office and the Timnath Police department, there is an SRO representative for all 51 PSD Schools.
We often are asked what we do as SROs, this can be summarized through the concept from the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) concept of “The Triad”.
The three components of The Triad are Law Enforcement, Mentorship/counseling, and Guest Speaking/teaching.
These three branches make up a well-rounded School Resource Officer. During the school year SROs can be found at their sites mentoring students or offering advice about peer conflicts, or bullying. We may be found assisting in presentations in classrooms on a wide variety of topics. We could be team teaching in US History classes on lessons about the Constitution, in Forensics classes teaching fingerprinting or DNA collection, in ELA classes teaching lessons on gathering contextual evidence from writings or reports to support students hypothesis.
We may be found in elementary schools reading to students or evaluating a science fair project. We may be playing dodgeball in PE classes or teaching Bicycle Safety.
We also may be called upon to enforce the law in the rare cases where students offend and harm others. These incidents can sometimes lead to direct referrals to community programs to repair harm, a Juvenile Summons to the Juvenile Court, or in extreme and rare cases, Arrests. We also collaborate with Administrators on a wide range of topics from drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse and neglect reporting, threats of violence to individuals or to the school itself.
Our SROs are carefully selected, specifically trained, and properly equipped law enforcement officers who are assigned to work in a school or school community in accordance with the NASRO standard.
Our SROs are always available for questions and all have varied interests and expertise and are available support our schools and school communities as needs arise.
If you have questions about your SRO please consider sending an email.
Officer Jaclyn Shaklee
Blevins Middle School, Bauder Elementary, Bennett Elementary, Dunn Elementary and Polaris ELS
jshaklee@fcgov.com
jshaklee@psdschools.org
