In an effort to reduce the problem of drugs and guns in the city’s schools, the Pine Bluff Police Department has started a program that involves sending officers to the schools.
On Thursday, interim Police Chief Lloyd Franklin Sr., was a guest on the Oldies 1013 morning show and was asked what the department was doing.
Franklin said he has assigned Lt. Jose Thompson, who works in the Department’s Service Division to supervise the department effort adding that Thompson has received training as a school resource officer and other areas.
Thompson talked about what officers had already done.
He said officers and the K-9 then went into a portion of the high school which they searched before going back to the parking lot and getting the students who had been driving the vehicles out of their classes and to their vehicles.
Thompson said no weapons were found in the searches and the suspected marijuana weighed 36 grams. The student whose car the suspected drugs were in was 18-years-old, he said.
Franklin said police will repeat the efforts at schools in the Pine Bluff and Watson Chapel District.
