02 July 2018, 22:28
Georgian authorities allocate about 4.5 million US dollars for school security systems
The funds are aimed to ensure that external perimeters of school buildings are equipped with CCTV cameras, an official from the Georgian Ministry of Education has announced today.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that two teenagers were stabbed as a result of a fight which took place near a school in Tbilisi on December 1, 2017. One of them died on the way to the hospital. The second was hospitalized in a critical condition and later died. On January 31, 2017, two more schoolchildren were hospitalized with stab wounds to the republican hospital in Tbilisi.
The Georgian Ministry of Education has prepared a bill proposing to equip all schools in Georgia with CCTV cameras and reform the service to maintain order at schools. The parents of schoolchildren interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" reacted positively to the above initiative. Part of the opposition said that the Ministry of Education wanted to combat juvenile crimes by enhancing police control.
"The equipment of external perimeters of school buildings with video surveillance is a priority. 11 million laris are allocated to fully equip external perimeters of school buildings with CCTV cameras during the academic year of 2018-2019," announced Lia Gigauri, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia as quoted today by the "InterPressNews".
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on July 2, 2018 at 03:04 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
