LAHORE (Kashmir English): The Punjab School Education Department (SED) has issued urgent instructions to strengthen safety and security across all public and private schools in the province.
The security measures at schools have reached their highest level because district education authorities must implement every security procedure that protects students and staff. Officials showed that the enhanced visitor monitoring system needs more security staff members to monitor entrance points and all incoming visitors while constructing perimeter defenses, which should contain high boundary walls and barbed wire where they can be built.
The school entry points need working CCTV cameras, metal detectors, and panic buttons. Schools without professional guards must assign personnel to watch the entrances.
The authorities mandated that schools implement emergency standard operating procedures, which require students and staff to practice emergency responses, while schools need to handle staged dispersal after school hours to avoid creating dangerous situations and prevent unsafe crowding.
The new measures build upon existing advisories, which show that rural and semi-urban schools need better security because they lack properly trained staff and necessary security equipment.
The school will stop its morning assembly, which brings together students from various grades, and the authorities have enacted Section 144 to stop people from holding dangerous meetings. The school requires its head officials, teachers, and monitoring officers to complete all new SOP requirements because they need to protect student safety and maintain school activities.
The department explained that student well-being requires these actions because officials will maintain security procedures through continuous monitoring until they receive further instructions from their superiors.
