The local administration has asked police to take action against 113 education institutes after they failed to put in place proper security arrangements to safeguard their students and the teaching staff.
After more than 135 schoolchildren and 10 staff members of the Peshawar Army Public School were massacred by terrorists on December 16, 2014, the local administration had issued SOPs to all private and public education institutes, including schools and colleges, to take stringent security measures. This included hiring trained security guards, raising eight feet tall boundary walls, installing CCTV cameras, etc., but after a lapse of more than two months, around 113 schools and colleges have still not been able to implement the security regime.
During a security audit of these institutions across the district by a monitoring team, it was observed that many loopholes still existed in 113 private and public sector education institutes vis-à-vis security arrangements.
Police sources confirmed that they have been provided a list of education institutes to take legal action against them after they failed to make proper security arrangements within the stipulated time.
The sources said that police teams would soon visit these education institutes to ask their administrations to complete the security arrangements within two days. The other recourse is that legal action will be taken against them as per the directives issued to them by the higher authorities.
