WHEREAS, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is meeting at its 106th Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina between October 30 and November 3, 1999; and

WHEREAS, the IACP Private Sector Liaison Committee (PSLC) has collaborated with the Department of Defense (DOD) and Security Resource Center (SRC) to produce Guidelines for the Prevention and Response to School Violence; and

WHEREAS, the DOD is responsible for the education dependents of service personnel in schools located around the world, a situation that makes this joint effort appropriate; and

WHEREAS, these guidelines have been prepared in a similar method to an earlier joint effort between the PSLC and the SRC entitled Combating Workplace Violence, Guidelines for Employers and Law Enforcement; and

WHEREAS, the publication of the "Guidelines for Preventing and Responding to School Violence" is again being made possible via grant from the Department of Justice through its Bureau of Justice Assistance; and

WHEREAS, as representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and staff of the IACP have all played a role in the review of the input from 15 focus groups held across America involving hundreds of school administrators, teachers, students, school board members, parents, experts on the subject of school violence, counselors, medical personnel and local public safety officials; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the IACP recommends the use of these guidelines by local communities as a tool for constructing appropriate preventative and response measures within individual jurisdictions, and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the IACP goes on record commending all those who gave of their time and expertise in support of the construction and distribution of these guidelines.