Police Officers train Safety Officers to deal with a wide number of violent criminal offences surrounding school violence, in the best interest of protecting school children. Details follow in this press release...
Safety officers in schools in East, Trinidad, are poised to tackle a series of violent situations that may pop up from time to time in educational institutions.
This, as the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) officers, trained 25 School Health Safety and Security Officers (SHSSOs) attached to the Health Safety and Security Services Unit in the St George East Educational District in preventing and responding to threats and violence.
The sessions were held on Aug 16 and 17 at the Barataria South Secondary School.
There, the SHSSOs participated in sessions that dealt with assault, aggravated assault, aiding and abetting, assembling to gamble, assault with intent to rob, disturbing the peace, drug suppression and fighting (with a weapon).
IATF officers also engaged the participants in preventing and addressing the issuing of threats, inciting violence, larceny, malicious damage, malicious wounding, obscene language, possession of stolen items, possession of a weapon, possession of arms and ammunition, robbery, attempted robbery and throwing missiles.
According to the facilitators, PCs Dale Ramjattan, Marvin Small, Randy Gray and WPC Paula Herbert, the SHSSOs are now “well-equipped” to advise school principals in preventing, assessing, and treating offences that may occur against the respective school populations.