Mike Johnson is the Director of School Safety for Hamilton Southeastern (HSE) Schools. Before serving as the Director of School Safety, Mike was a police officer for 29 years. Mike worked for the Fishers Police Department from 1993 – 2022 where he served as a patrol officer, a field training officer, a shift sergeant, shift lieutenant and division commander.

Mike has been working in school-based policing since 1995 when he started as a DARE Officer at FPD. He is currently a certified school safety practitioner and instructor for the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). Mike teaches the NASRO Basic SRO course and has instructed the NASRO Adolescent Mental Health Training class. He is an Indiana Safe School Specialist and serves on the Indiana School Safety Specialist Advisory Team and an Indiana instructor for Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment and Management (BDTA). Hs is also a Workshop 1 trainer for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) PREPaRE Crisis Response model. Mike is an active member of the Indiana School Resource Officers Association (InSROA) and was recognized as a Master Level Accredited SRO.

In his current role, he oversees the administration of all school safety efforts for HSE Schools. The district is the 4th largest district in Indiana with 20,000 students, 2,500 employees and 25 buildings.