Standard Operating Procedures(SOP) on the response to a terrorist attack have been sent to schools in the wake of the Taliban massacre of 148 people, mostly children, in Peshawar on Tuesday.
Measures like installing CCTVs and a concrete boundary wall, with three to four gates and each gate manned by at least three guards on a 24-hour basis, have been also listed.
Principals have been requested to read carefully the SOPs, prepared by the Home Ministry and circulated by the Central Board of Secondary Education, and bring it to the notice of all staff and teachers of the schools and develop a comprehensive action plan to implement the guidelines, official sources said today.
"Each school should have concrete boundary wall, with three to four gates and each gate should be manned by at least three guards on a 24-hour basis. Details of telephone number of the Police Control Room and local police station should be maintained and updated regularly by the school authorities," the SOPs said.
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In the SOPs, the schools have been advised to install CCTV systems all along the boundary as well as some additional locations inside the premises, to monitor the movement of any suspicious person, with recording facilities for the last three days, at least.
The CCTV system alarm may also be connected to the identified gates to close them automatically.
They should close the doors from inside and lie low in the classroom to escape random firing, the SOPs said.
A centralised alarm system and also a PA system, through which classes can be addressed collectively as well as individually and selected combination should be installed, it added.