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School Security Concern After Cutting at High School
Monday, Sep 24, 2007 - 05:33 PM Updated: 04:33 PM
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Save This PageAfter several incidents on Friday, some have concerns about the safety of Savannah-Chatham students. On Friday, Campus Police say a Groves student cut another teen with a box cutter.
That same morning, a fight erupted on a bus headed to Jenkins High School and police are still looking for one of the students involved.
3 On Your Side Education Reporter, Randi Hempel, met with Campus Police Chief Ulysses Bryant to talk school security today.
He says school security is made up of several components; people, training, technology and the program itself. He says it's a collaborative effort.
So what happened on Friday when a student was able to get a box cutter on campus? Being on your side, I went to Chief Bryant to get answers
This empty cafeteria is the place where a fight led to a 15-year old male student cutting a female student with a box cutter.
“For parents out there, and other community members, we're wondering how could this student get into the school with a box cutter when there are measures in place to hopefully prevent that?” I ask Chief Bryant.
“You're absolutely right, in other words, we're trying to do our best to deter students from bringing those types of devices to school.” Says Chief Bryant.
“How come that wasn't caught, there's metal detectors here.” I continue.
“Well now when you speak about metal detectors, let's be reasonable here. If you look about us here, there are a number of doors into this school and can you imagine every morning having to funnel these students into one door? And scan every student, we have to be practical in some approaches.” Responds Chief Bryant.
“But when we have a portable metal detector, we have the hand held metal detectors, wouldn't it be nice to maybe have that inconvenience in the morning just to make sure that everyone is going to be safe at school?” I ask.
“If you're talking about scanning every individual student prior to the start of school, that's something I would have to discuss with the administration.” Says Chief Bryant.