Classroom coppers are sent to Telford schools

Police community support officers have taken up new posts – inside schools in?Telford.

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From left, PCSO Tim Griffiths, head girl Morgan Cooper, 15, and head boy Jordan Ricketts, 15, with principal of the Hadley Learning Community Gill Eatough

Dedicated PCSOs are now in place in nine schools across the county, designed to be the friendly face of the police force to young people studying in the region.

The police have been working in the schools since the start of term and teachers and officers say they are already seeing the benefits.

The police posts include Hadley Learning Community in Telford, Abraham Darby Academy in Madeley, The Phoenix School in Dawley, Madeley Academy, Lakeside Academy in Stirchley and Ercall Wood Technology College in Wellington. Officers are also in The Marches School in Oswestry and Sundorne and Belvidere schools in Shrewsbury.