"If you see something, say something." That's the slogan Davenport police officers will be repeating to students and teachers when the new school year begins next week.
Sergeant Andy Neyrinck, the department's police liaison to the school district, says safety drills are held all year in the schools.
"If this happens, what would you do, how would you respond. Making them familiar with what their evacuation routes are if that incident does happen. And if it does happen, you have to have that mentality that you are going to survive this - giving them options that if that incident does happen as ways to get through it."
The district and police department introduced the P-3 App last year, for people to report possible safety concerns, in Central High School, and plan to make it available to North and West high schools this fall. Soon, it will also be available in Davenport's intermediate schools.
Curtiss Carter, the School Resource Officer at Davenport West, says his job includes working with students, being a mentor, acting as a deterrent, and teaching classes.
"I'm there to help them, and to assist them and to be helpful in any way that I can for them and not necessarily as someone who's going to lay down the hammer and trying to arrest everybody I come into contact with."
Carter also has children attending the Davenport schools, and wants to make sure they're safe - the schools and his children.
Davenport teachers are attending in-service programs this week, with the first day of classes set for next Monday.
