More than 300 South Florida officers have participated in an orientation and training to prepare for the upcoming school year.
The orientation, held at Miami Jackson Senior High School, included municipal and federal law enforcement agencies. These groups helped train school-based law enforcement officers throughout Miami-Dade County.
The training used lessons learned from the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School back in February.
The school-based officers will help ensure that at least one uniformed officer will be assigned to each public school. Miami-Dade County officials say they have assigned a whole unit to the school resource officer program.
Training will continue for over 300 officers on Friday, and next week is the final orientation with over 400 officers before the school year.