TIRANA, May 29/ATA/ The Ministry of Education and Sports, in collaboration with the Security Academy of the Ministry of Defense, certified today 77 new security officers, who will serve in pre-university education institutions.
Attending the ceremony held on this occasion was Minister of Education and Sports Ogerta Manastirliu, Minister of Interior Ervin Hoxha, security officers, teachers and parents, representatives of parents’ councils.
Manastirliu said that these officers will serve in educational institutions, guaranteeing more safety for the students.
Minister Manastirliu stated that the number of security officers will increase and for the first time it will include vocational education, too.
“Through the latest government decision that we have approved, we have paved the way for an increase in the number of security officers in schools, deciding that in schools with more than 900 students we will have two security officers and in schools with at least 350 students we will have one security officer in the school”, Manastirliu underlined.
Further on, Manastirliu focused on the need to strengthen mechanisms that prevent negative phenomena and emphasized the significance of the digital communication notebook, which informs parents in real time about everything that happens to children at school.
Welcoming the 77 new officers certified by the Security Academy, Interior Minister Ervin Hoxha appreciated that, “with the certification of the new security officers, there has been taken an important step”. /k.s/a.f/p.s./
