Most local students are now in class after holiday break.
Marietta City Schools started Wednesday morning, where new police officers are in place to keep students safe.
We saw police at Marietta High School to keep gang activity out of the schools.
Marietta police added the two new school resource officers, going from four to six district-wide, at the beginning of the school year.
Those officers are gang resource officers with special training.
Police say there is no current gang activity or problems in Marietta schools and this was just a proactive measure.
However, police records show a gang of two dozen students operated at Marietta High School last school year. Many were arrested and charged with an assault on school campus.
Marietta police say the new gang officers, mostly funded through a federal grant, is a way to get more officers in the schools to combat anything that comes up and increase overall student safety.
“They’re still going to do the normal things and have normal duties an officer in the schools would have. It just gives us an extra resource, and extra set of education and especially set of eyes that common person may not understand,” Sgt. David Baldwin said.
They’re trained to spot things that parents, teachers, other students may not notice that could be gang-related.
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