Niger: PCRC launches security App to strengthen school safety

The Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC, has introduced a integer information exertion designed to assistance schools study information threats and alteration applicable authorities to find emergencies arsenic portion of efforts to fortify schoolhouse information successful Niger State.

The PCRC BOOSTAR exertion was unveiled connected Tuesday successful Minna alongside the flag-off of the National Safe Schools Initiative, which besides provides for the constitution of Safe Schools Clubs successful schools.

Speaking astatine the event, the PCRC's National Safe Schools Technical Director, Dr Benson Olatunji, said the exertion incorporates geolocation features to assistance place the precise locations of reported emergencies, arsenic good arsenic a feedback mechanics to amended connection with users.

Olatunji, who described the PCRC arsenic a captious nexus betwixt the constabulary and the public, said implementation would proceed successful phases, opening with the flag-off, followed by the postulation of schoolhouse information crossed states and grooming for applicable stakeholders.

He called for nationalist practice and enactment for PCRC members to guarantee the palmy implementation of the programme.

The PCRC Zonal Chairman, Otunba Bolaji Adigun, who delivered the flag-off code connected behalf of the National Chairman, Alhaji Mogaji Ibrahim Olaniyan, said the inaugural was designed to fortify assemblage information successful information and promote practice among schools, residents and instrumentality enforcement agencies.

He urged stakeholders to enactment the implementation of the...