Douglas County Schools to Add Plain Clothes Officers

Douglas County Schools, in Colorado, announced a new security program, on Thursday.

The program will see on duty police officers stationed in schools.

However, one difference will make the program the first of it's kind, in the country.

Officers will sometimes be in uniform, or other times in plain cloths, making it less obvious who is armed.

The district hopes that this will add more security, by not just having an armed officer, but by making it so criminals would have to guess who was armed or not.

Deputies from the county will be joined by officers from Castle Rock, Lone Tree, and Parker.

Beginning in the fall, the program will cost the district about half a million dollars, annually.

Officials with the district hope that their use of solar energy, instead of electric, will make up the financial difference.