Algeria sets up cameras at schools

Algeria’s national police chief Abdelghani Hamel gave an instruction to step up surveillance measures ahead of the school year. More cameras will be set up at schools and headmasters are ordered to take an inventory of pupils, Echorouk has learnt.

The new measures are meant to protect pupils from attacks, kidnappings and accidents. Police patrols will mobilized around the schools to ease traffic.

The police will also establish communication and awarness-raising programs to pupils at junior high schools and highs schools with their parents. This will be done in coordination with the association of pupils’ parents and civil society.

According to the same sources, security forces sent an instruction to headmasters to be vigilant and take an inventory of pupils on a daily basis.