Three Denver high school campuses have temporary police officers after their full-time officers asked last week to be reassigned, a Denver Police Department spokesperson said.
The school resource officers at Montbello High School, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College, and the Regis Groff Campus, which is home to two charter schools, asked to be reassigned because the police department stopped allowing them “to collect overtime for their regular assignment,” said Doug Schepman, the department’s director of communications.
The department “is ensuring there will be no reduction in officer coverage at these three schools” while it works to find new full-time school resource officers, or SROs, Schepman said…