The Holland Department of Public Safety (HDPS) is committed to working closely with our schools and offering programs for the youth in our community.
HDPS currently has two full-time Officers assigned to Holland Public Schools.
- Officer Joe Soto is assigned to the High School

- Officer Anna Heintzleman is assigned to East Middle School

These positions provide added security, complaint investigation and law enforcement interaction for the student body.
School Assignment
HDPS Community Policing Officers (CP) are each assigned to schools in and near their assigned neighborhoods. Both the CP Officers and the School Resource Officer offers a variety of programming to all of the requesting schools in the city and to the entire Holland Community. More than 8,000 citizens benefit from preventative and awareness programming every year.