Students to be taught safety measures

Plans have been announced to introduce students at the primary school level to principles relating to school emergencies, and protocol on dealing with bullying as well as deeply disturbed children.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Coleridge Minto, Director of Security and Safety in Schools at the Ministry of ‎Education, explains that this information is now in a safety and security module to be merged with the Health and Family Education curriculum.

This development follows Monday's detention of a Wolmer's Boys School student who published a voice note on social media, suggesting he would conduct mass killings.

The police later declared that the teenager did not have the capacity to carry out the threat.

ASP Minto, speaking on RJR’s Beyond the Headlines, disclosed that sensitisation on the module has already started and there have been five regional training seminars since the start of the year.

“We will now teach it from the primary level right through secondary, so not only will the educators have a manual that is in their office, but we’re now going to be exposing students to different types of safety and security concerns and how they cope with some of these things, so that if they are placed in a situation, they will know how to manage themselves,” he explained.