Safe Schools Facilitator

Captain Thomas Busch, the Safe Schools Facilitator, is the liaison for the Police Department with the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, the Department of Student Support Services, and the school system. He works closely with the staff in coordinating all programs and services provided to the school system by the Police Department. This interagency partnership is designed to help ensure the maintenance of safe and orderly learning environments in all schools. Captain Busch also serves as the liaison with the Fire Department in helping the school system develop the best emergency management plans so that all interagency partners will know exactly how they are to respond if there is ever a crisis in any of our schools or offices.

The school system also enjoys an effective interagency partnership with the Department of Health's Bureau of Substance Abuse. Programs designed to prevent destructive decision making by students, prevention and interventions when students use/abuse drugs, and parent and community programs designed to prevent and intervene with drug use/abuse are coordinated collaboratively with the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and the Bureau of Substance Abuse.