Greater Victoria school trustees are calling for the reinstatement of Police School Liaison Officers in schools.
The officers were pulled last spring following a failed funding request to hire more staff.
Victoria council approved their share of the budget increase, but Esquimalt Council rejected it -- triggering a review by Provincial Police Services which is still underway.
District 61 Trustee Anne Whiteaker says the officers are needed, and calls them an "investment in the future":
" This is how we help keep our kids out of gangs. This is how we keep our young women and our young men safe when they are struggling with relationships and sexual natures, and things that aren't going the way they should be. We need our police liaison officers in the schools so that our students have somewhere to go when they can't go to family."
Whiteaker says the district wants it known the liaison offers are needed, and missed.