DUMFRIES, Va. — Following the tragic December 2013 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Dumfries Elementary School will be the first and only elementary school in Prince William County to have a full-time police officer on campus. The school sits in the Town of Dumfries, which has agreed to fund the new position.
The move was approved by the Town Council and will cost town taxpayers about $100,000 to implement the new police position, when taking into account for training, equipment, and a new police cruiser, according to police officials.
The new police officer could be walking the halls of the school in time for the new school year this fall. But the decision to put a police officer at Dumfries comes as another jurisdiction – Simpsonville, S.C. – has found a way to do it for free.
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