Tuesday night at the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors meeting the supervisors were notified that the county has been approved for a state grant to hire ten new school resource officers. The grant is for just over $475,000 in the first year, then the county will have to match 25% of the funds for the last three years of the grant, worth over $158,000 annually.

The county currently has eight SRO’s to cover the 27 schools in the county. The ten new officers would up the total to 18 officers.