CONWAY — After 21 years of using a dedicated school resource officer at Kennett High, the Conway School District is changing the model and instead will use multiple officers and cover all five schools. The officers will visit the schools as part of their regular, daily patrols.
“It’s a new model,” said Conway Police Chief Chris Mattei by phone on Thursday. “We’re going to try it, see how it works and if, after six months, we think we prefer the old method, we’ll go back to it.”
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