The Campus Safety Officer (CSO) Division consists of Campus Safety Officers, Sergeants, Lieutenant, and Commander, who are responsible for staffing K-8, Charter, Middle, High, and Intensive Pathway Schools throughout DPS. The primary function of a CSO is to provide proactive safety services for the campus to ensure students, staff and visitors at assigned schools have a secure learning environment by intervening in/and resolving any potential or actual disruptive threats or activity.
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The City and County of Denver provides funding for salaries and equipment for 40 crossing guards at District Schools. Interested individuals apply for the positions through the District’s Human Resources Department’s hiring process. The CSO Division’s supervision team oversees the school assignments, and the Operations Division assists with training the crossing guards assigned to schools.
Currently chaired by Denver Public Health, the coalition held its first meeting in October 2007 and established the vision and goals of the program.
Safe Routes to Schools Information
The coalition’s vision: To ensure every child in Denver can walk and bike to school safely.
The coalition’s goal: To establish a Denver Safe Routes to School Strategic Plan.
The CSO Division’s supervision team represents the department at this coalition’s quarterly meetings.
The Denver Safe Routes 2 School Coalition consists of many partners including several departments of Denver Public Schools, The Mayor’s Office for Education and Children, Denver Office of Aging, Department of Environmental Health, Denver Public Works, Community Planning and Development, Denver City Council, Denver Public Health, Safe Kids Metro Denver, Denver Fire Department, Denver Police Department, Colorado Department of Transportation, State Representatives, Neighborhood Associations, and a number of private and public organizations. The Coalition serves as a centralized point for information sharing.
The CSO Division’s supervision team represents the department on this task force. The task force consists of representatives from the District’s Transportation and Risk Management Departments, the City and County of Denver’s Traffic Engineering Department, Parking Enforcement Division, and the Denver Police Department’s Traffic Bureau and police district Community Resource Officers. Currently chaired by the Traffic Engineering Department, the task force meets twice annually before school starts in the fall and before schools resumes after winter break. Task force members work closely with individual school administrators to address pedestrian and traffic safety concerns, school bus stopping and parking, right -of-way signage and signaling, and traffic and pedestrian safety education and enforcement.
