Volunteers who are older adults living in an independent setting work together the same way as neighborhood watch. During school hours, the officers visits promote interaction with children, teachers, parent volunteers and staff. Officers also greet students as they arrive for school, spend time with kids on the playground, and are often present at the end of the school day. To promote this program, the Parent-Teacher Association has purchased lunch tickets for the officer to eat one lunch a week in the cafeteria with the children. Officers attend Open House, assemblies and other school activities during and after work, and enforcing traffic laws in school zones.
Children often swarm over officers as they stroll the playground at recess.
The goal of the School Resource Officer is to provide more thorough and efficient police service to the high school campus and act as liaison between the police, educators and students. Assigned full-time to the high school, the SRO answers calls for service including taking incident reports, conducts investigations and makes arrests. Officer Matt Reed is the SRO at Stow-Munroe Falls High School. Police Officers are trained for this type of patrol throughout the city on specially equipped bicycles. The bicycles were purchased through donations from local businesses.