School security officers inArkansas.
Commissioned School Security Officers licensed through the Arkansas State Police, protecting Jonesboro Public Schools since 2025 and ready for districts across the state.
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What Arkansas law requires
Arkansas lets a school district or an open-enrollment charter employ or contract for Commissioned School Security Officers, armed personnel commissioned by the Arkansas State Police under Ark. Code §17-40-208(d) and the Arkansas School Safety Commission's standards. The commission requires 60 hours of initial training in firearms qualification, active-shooter scenarios, trauma care, defensive tactics, weapon retention and de-escalation, with 24 hours of annual in-service.
DIS holds Arkansas security company license CMPY.0003494 and employs CSSOs who completed that curriculum and were commissioned by the State Police. In the 2025–26 school year DIS and Jonesboro Public Schools formed the first district-contractor CSSO partnership in Arkansas, and DIS officers now protect eight Arkansas campuses.
The Arkansas Center for School Safety and the 2018 School Safety Commission recommendations also call for a trained armed presence at every campus, a current emergency operations plan and coordination with local law enforcement. DIS officers are introduced to the police chief or sheriff before day one and participate in the district's drills.
Statutes summarized for orientation; each engagement is reviewed against current law with the school's counsel. Licensing board: Arkansas State Police, Regulatory Services Division.
Built to the Arkansas statute, run from one Command Center
State Police commissioned
Every officer completed the School Safety Commission's 60-hour CSSO curriculum and holds a State Police commission.
Proven district model
The Jonesboro Public Schools partnership is the template: full-time officers, district post orders, weekly supervisor visits.
Military backgrounds
Most DIS Arkansas officers served in the military or law enforcement before joining us.
Tactical medicine and YMHFA
Every officer carries a trauma kit and holds tactical combat casualty care and youth mental health first aid certifications.
Every DIS school post, in every state, includes
- A full-time armed officer assigned to one campus, introduced to the principal before day one
- 24/7 Command & Control Center oversight: GPS check-ins, body camera, encrypted radio
- A certified backfill officer dispatched before the first bell on any absence
- Weekly regional supervisor visits and same-day incident reports
- K-9 weapon-detection sweeps available on request
- Tactical combat casualty care and youth mental health first aid on every officer
Straight answers for Arkansas
What is an Arkansas Commissioned School Security Officer?
Can an Arkansas district contract with a security company for CSSOs?
Where in Arkansas does DIS operate?
Does DIS work with Arkansas charter schools?
Every state writes the law differently
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