Police presence coming to Letcher County Schools
Channel: Mountain Top News
Date: 02/03/2018

Another school district is welcoming uniformed police officers into its schools.
In a message posted to Facebook Thursday, the Letcher County School District announced that uniformed officers will now be in all of the district’s schools. Letcher County Sheriff’s Deputy Sidney Fields said the sheriff’s office is teaming up with the Whitesburg and Neon police departments to cover all of the Letcher County School District school buildings in the morning hours.
Fields said all three agencies hope the presence of officers at the schools will help set parents minds at ease about school safety.
Fields said officers will be in Letcher County’s schools through at least the end of the current school year.
The move comes in the same week that the Pike County School District welcomed uniformed sheriff’s deputies into its schools.