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Logan Wolf of the Marshalltown Police Division is the brand new College Useful resource Officer at Marshalltown Excessive College.

College students at Marshalltown Excessive College can be seeing a well-recognized face strolling by means of the halls this faculty yr as Marshalltown Police Officer Logan Wolf has formally been put in because the constructing’s new College Useful resource Officer (SRO).

The Le Grand native steps into the function having served on the Marshalltown Police Division since 2015. It’s right here that Wolf has channeled his ardour for not solely regulation enforcement but in addition interpersonal outreach locally.

“I’m actually massive on communication and speaking to folks,” Wolf mentioned. “I feel the beginning of every part is constructing rapport and relationships with folks.”

Now, as the varsity’s designated SRO, Wolf indicated he hopes to carry this sense of community-minded policing to the various halls of MHS, the place reactions and emotions towards cops can fluctuate from scholar to scholar.

“The distinction in cultures generally is a distinction in how folks method cops,” Wolf mentioned. “The massive factor is that I feel some children are extra apt to keep away from the scenario of a police officer. Now, some children are infatuated with cops, however, I take into consideration after I was a child — if you happen to simply keep away from them, they’re not gonna trouble you — so I am going out of my option to go speak to children, make them really feel that it’s okay to say ‘Hello’ to us.”

First positioned within the faculty as an interim SRO in late September, Wolf took to the job and setting like a fish to water, and as Marshalltown Police Chief Michael Tupper defined, the match couldn’t have been any higher.

“Logan’s an important faculty useful resource officer as a result of he’s acquired distinctive communication expertise and he’s a really personable younger man,” mentioned Tupper. “He’s been working within the faculty now for a number of weeks, and he’s achieved an outstanding job, and we’re simply actually excited to have him there.”

MCSD Superintendent Theron Schutte shared Tupper’s enthusiasm and is grateful to formally have Wolf onboard.

“We’re very excited to have Officer Logan Wolf be part of our employees at Marshalltown Excessive College as the brand new full-time College Useful resource Officer (SRO). Within the short-time he has been working as an interim SRO, he has developed many constructive relationships with college students, households and employees which is a main objective for the place,” Schutte mentioned. “I’m assured that he’ll proceed to offer the excessive diploma of excellence that we’ve skilled with our ongoing partnership with the Marshalltown Police Division.”

Although his tasks because the SRO encompasses a big selection of duties all through the varsity reminiscent of interacting with college students, serving as an off-the-cuff mentor, and even law-related training, all of it’s underscored by guaranteeing the protection and safety of the scholars and faculty buildings towards potential threats.

“Whenever you get into regulation enforcement you need to perceive that there are dangers, and if a scenario like that arises, I’ve a accountability that I’ve to keep up and tackle the menace because it comes,” Wolf mentioned. “We undergo numerous coaching and preparation, whether or not that be bodily or psychological, there’s numerous stuff that we’ve got to undergo. You don’t rise as much as the event. You prepare for the event.”

Whereas he stays busy together with his duties as a SRO for MHS throughout the day, Wolf moonlights as a coach for the MHS Esports group and youth wrestling, granting a chance for college kids to see him as greater than merely a police officer within the district.

“It permits me extra to work together with college students on a stage that’s not within the legal discipline,” Wolf mentioned. “I’ve a ardour for teaching… serving to them construct these expertise, and perceive that all of it interprets over. I inform them on a regular basis, something that you just do in life is completed on paper first. By that, I imply, there’s a construction beneath every part that you just’re doing.”

Wolf’s arrival into the varsity district has helped fulfill a longtime objective for the 31-year-old, one thing he hopes to construct upon as he continues in his function as SRO.

“That was my objective: to be concerned locally. Whenever you’re younger, and also you begin out, you wish to combat crime and do all that stuff,” Wolf mentioned. “However on the opposite facet of it, [it’s] constructing relationships and rapport and actually specializing in how we are able to change some issues.”

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Contact Nick Baur at 641-753-6611 or nbaur@timesrepublican.com.