Sobyanin: security of Moscow schools to be tested
MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - Additional security measures will be elaborated for Moscow schools, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told reporters on Thursday.
"We will verify the entire security system, the way it works, the way security guards interact with the police and, certainly, will try to elaborate additional security measures," the mayor said.
School security has been given sufficient attention in Moscow in the recent years, he remarked. "All schools have modern video surveillance systems, from four to eight cameras. They are connected to the unified database. The rate of violations on the school premises has been reduced a lot," Sobyanin said.
In his words, security guard companies were hired by districts rather than schools themselves.
"A system of interaction between these security guard companies and the police has been created; each security guard has an alert button and even the latest tragedy showed that it worked and soon enough - a police detail came within minutes to deal with the case," Sobyanin said.
A high school student from Moscow school No 263 took hostages and killed a teacher and a police officer on February 3. Another policeman was injured. A criminal case was opened under three articles of the Russian Criminal Code: 206 (the taking of hostages), 105 (murder) and 317 (attempted murder of police officers). The teenager was placed under arrest.
