NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy is providing free training for school resource officers across the state, and 96 cadets will have graduated from the program this year by the end of June.
Tennessee’s Enhanced School Safety Work Group, which is made up of several state agencies, came up with the idea for the SRO training program after the Uvalde school shooting in 2022.
“We had an advanced school last year. That was sort of dipping our toes in the water of SRO training,” William ‘Chip’ Kain, the executive director of TLETA said. “This year we were able to add a basic SRO training school onto that.”…