TRUMBULL COUNTY 2 grants to place officers in Warren schools expire

The police department has applied for another grant to have officers in schools.
WARREN -- Two grants that placed police officers in the city schools won't be renewed next year.
The Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS grant, which provided school resource officers in city schools for the last three years, has run out. Another year-old grant, administered by the Ohio Department of Youth Services using federal money, has been discontinued.
Capt. Tim Bowers said that when he applied for the COPS grant, it was for $375,000 for three years. That time runs out in February 2005.
He has applied for a different grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would provide five police officers in schools. About a month ago, he received a letter asking for more information. It hasn't yet been approved or turned down.
Second grant discontinued
The other grant, called a Juvenile Accountability Block Grant, won't be renewed because of cuts in federal funding. Bowers said he wrote that grant application to augment the COPS officers.
"With all of the problems we've had in the community, I thought it would be a good way to let people know, at a young age, that we're people too."
That grant runs out Dec. 31.
"The COPS grant was particularly important," said William E. Mullane, principal of Warren G. Harding High School. "The one-year new grant probably benefited the police as much as us."
He called the new, one-year grant a "relationship grant" aimed at building relationships between students and police.