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Chris Holbrook

Chris Holbrook

Chris Holbrook is a Lieutenant at the Rapid City Police Department in South Dakota, where he manages the Criminal Investigations Division.

Aug 26, 2026

4:07
That is a good one.
4:10
Speaking of many hats, that's exactly what a resource officer does is they wear many hats.
4:14
So they can be everything from a coach to a counselor to a police officer or just a trusted adult.
4:20
So they have to be able to know when to switch hats.
4:24
Obviously, if it's a criminal issue, they jump in as their profession, the law enforcement.
4:29
They will take care of those and work with the schools and the staff and the students on those.
4:33
But we have resource officers that are coaches.
6:23
How does one become a school resource officer?
speaker_0HOST
8:41
How about you guys? When you get involved, what does that look like? Is there a citation? I mean, I know what happens in our office when we see them, but...
8:49
So the cool thing about the SRO program is that there are so many different options of how to resolve a circumstance like that.
8:58
It doesn't mean every time you talk to a kid that broke a law that they go to jail.
9:03
In fact, that's usually our last resort.
9:06
There's so many things to do up to that point, whether it's aerobatics.
9:13
Citations are a possibility.
9:15
They can be just arrested and released to a parent.

17 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
26:07
So what have you just seen in terms of, like, that important relationship between SROs and students, SROs and administration, and how does that sort of change the dynamic when we talk about school safety?

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