Law prompts NIC to hire SRO
Keith Cousins Hagadone News Network | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 9 months AGO
COEUR d’ALENE — North Idaho College will soon have a uniformed city police officer stationed full-time on campus.
Beginning Aug. 25, the community college will be the first in Idaho with its own school resource officer.
NIC President Joe Dunlap said Thursday that the college has wanted to upgrade its security profile for several years. The tipping point for hiring an SRO, Dunlap said, was a new statute approved by lawmakers earlier this year which allows concealed weapons to be carried on public college and university campuses in the state.
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