Audrain County SRO

08/26/2025

We are deeply appreciative of our partnership with law enforcement and always enjoy when they stop by to visit our buildings!

08/25/2025

Here are some photos from the SRO course I was able to attend over the summer. Again it was a great training opportunity.

Lt. Scrogin

08/20/2025

It’s that time of year again. Kids are headed off to school and school buses are back out doing their best to get them to and from safely. Even though you may “know” the stop arm laws, please review the picture as a refresher. It takes less than a minute to review it, usually less than 2 minutes to stop, and saves a lifetime of pain for yourself and potential victim’s families.

While it’s not really broken down on how many kids are killed every year at bus stops, there is an average of 111 kids a year that are killed in school bus related incidents. Most of those kids are between the ages of 5 and 10. Let’s not let our communities become part of those statistics! Put your cell phones down (it’s the law), be aware of your surroundings, and drive slower.

Good luck to all of the students, staff, and families this school year! Here’s hoping it’s the best year yet!

Deputy Burson 873

08/17/2025

08/16/2025

I had the opportunity this week to travel to another ALERRT course. This one was designed to focus entirely on the solo response of the SRO to any type of attack or threat that may take place within a school or on school grounds. This is also a course that they are in the process of finishing the build on, and myself and other SRO's from Missouri and Alabama had the opportunity to participate in and help provide our insights to help better the course.

At the end of it all I can say this class truly lived up to my expectations of high quality training put on by ALERRT and their instructors. I am honored to have had the chance to help with ideas to finish build this course. I am proud to be able to be recognized as a certified instructor for several of their active attack response courses, and at the conclusion of this course was told I could bring it back to our area to provide the training to other SRO's.

The research this organization puts into their courses to ensure they are up to date and providing the most accurate information truly shows why they have become the National Standard for active attack training. Also, as opposed to some classes the majority of their course are hands on classes. This means only minimal time is spent in the classroom looking at a power point, and most of the course is spent actually doing scenarios and putting what is learned into action.

I look forward to continuing my relationship with ALERRT and bringing their courses to members of our office, surrounding agencies, and other first responder organizations within Audrain County.

Lt. Scrogin

07/23/2025

I had the privilege to attend this training last week. While there I got to work and learn with many first responders from the Taney County area. This type of training centers around putting groups of people together who have not worked together before and ensuring they will be on the same page if an active attack were to happen. As a result of this training I now have the capability to bring this class back to Audrain County and teach all of our first responder agencies so if something were to happen fire, law enforcement, and EMS will be on the same page from the time the call goes out.

Lt. Scrogin

08/31/2024

05/23/2024

The talent within both our school districts continues to amaze me. Last year and this year, I had the pleasure of teaching a class to the 8th grade students at Community R-VI. It was more of a question and answer type of class, where they were given a topic and I spoke briefly about it and then they asked me questions. Both this year and last year, we had students who wrote excellent papers and received this great award. Keep up the great work, kids! Congratulations!!

Deputy Burson 873

05/22/2024

02/15/2024

I am told today is National School Resource Officer Day. The SRO serves as an important bridge between the youth in our community and law enforcement. During the 2015-2016 school year the young lady pictured here, who was a senior at Van-Far that school year called me from my office to present me with the string art she is holding, which is still hanging in my office. It was my second year being assigned as the SRO and until that moment I had not realized the true impact I was having on the students within the districts I was assigned to. Courtney Cartee has gone on to become a para professional at Van-Far, and the further I get from my first year in the schools I am getting the honor to work with several graduates from both districts who have either returned to help educate the next generation in the schools where they were taught or who have gone on to work in the criminal justice field alongside of me. It makes me proud to see each and everyone of our graduates doing what they live to do and I am honored to call them friends. Yes this day is to push tribute to our law enforcement who work in the schools, but without the relationships built with the students and staff the position of an SRO would not be as successful as they are. So I finish with this. Thank you to the Community R-VI and Van-Far School Districts for inviting me into your buildings and allowing me the honor of keeping your students safe.

Lt. Scrogin

02/07/2024

UPDATE-The dog's owner has picked him up! Thank you!

We have a super friendly dog who showed up at school today. He's currently hanging out in the bus barn. If anyone knows who this adorable dog belongs to, please stop by and claim him.

11/14/2023

Celebrate the seat belt this National Seat Belt Day – it’s a lifesaver!