Clarissa Carter

• Manage a team of professional School Safety Patrol Officers who respond to various locations during normal school hours of operation, to assist the staff on location with situations that may result in an unsafe learning environment. In addition the mobile Patrol Platoons which operate 24 hours / 7 days a week , including holidays, providing roving security to all School District of Philadelphia properties throughout the city. Effective communication skills allow me to collaborate with emergency services ie. Police or Fire department personnel, in addition to other SDP departments. I am responsible for reporting all findings to the OSS Executive Team and provide clear directions to the officers, making decisions aligning with the goals and objectives of the Office of School Safety and the School District Of Philadelphia.

• School Based Officer for 15 years at Overbrook High School where my duties were as followed:
• Conduct regular campus security patrols and handle an incidents promptly to maintain overall safety for students and staff
• Respond to any emergency situations to asses and deescalate if possible.
• Team Leader for Plain Clothes Pilot Program at South Philadelphia High School for 2 years.
• My duties included gathering data, identifying and implementing resolutions, planned follow-up reports regarding mediations between students performed by team members.
• In 2017 joined the Mobile Patrol Unit were I was a part of a team of officers who were dispatched to various locations and school buildings to assist staff and students with restoring a safe learning community. Responded to alarm trips , vandalism and theft occurring on SDP properties. Secured and set alarms at SDP locations. Often assigned to the Education Center where I worked at the various security post. Eventually I was assigned to the location as an OSS Administrative Officer for a year and a half , before being promoted to School Safety Supervisor for Patrol.

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