By Sue-Ann Wayow
SAFETY officers in schools in East, Trinidad, have been trained to tackle a series of violent situations that may occur in educational institutions.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) in a release on Wednesday said 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 August 16 and 17 at the Barataria South Secondary School.
There, the SHSSOs participated in sessions which 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.
