The Town of Tazewell and the Tazewell County Public Schools have worked together to provide a School Resource Officer for Tazewell High School.  The officer assigned to the high school is given specialized training to include identifying with characteristics of adolescent developmental stages, search and seizure, school law, law enforcement related education, the Class Action curriculum, and precipitating factors that contribute to violence in the school community.

Other training the School Resource Officer has includes specialization in drug recognition and training in crisis management in schools
    The proactive and effective School Resource Officer Program is one component of the partnership that commits public safety personnel to the safety and security of the school community. The central mission of the law enforcement–educator partnership is student success. When students succeed, the entire community succeeds. Student success contributes to community safety: students who experience success and make positive contributions within their schools become productive citizens in the larger community.   

Our School Resource Officer has become a very important part of the school. He not only has become a resource for students, but for teachers and parents as well. The School Resource Officer also spends a great deal of their time working with other crime prevention and community programs such as, Class Action, Amber Alert, Substance Abuse Prevention, CADRE, and more.