Handheld metal detectors provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Photo by Jilleen Pearson
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Education Minister Ruel Reid
Edith Dalton James High is among five schools to receive a walk-through metal detector as well as a number of handheld devices.
The announcement was made by Education Minister Ruel Reid on Wednesday afternoon at a ceremony during which 130 handheld metal scanners and five walk-through detectors were handed over by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Edith Dalton James High will install the walk-through scanner at the entrance to the school this month.
This comes a month after a 15 year-old male student was stabbed to death by a classmate at the school.
Senator Reid, who addressed the ceremony, noted that the government was determined to ensure that there was no recurrence of the incident at the school or any other institution.
"When we did our investigation, the youngster in question had about two or three weapons on his person, and had he been through that kind of surveillance, then they would have been detected and he would have been disarmed," said the minister.
He added that the initiative was a sort of resocialisation in the school system to combat the "high levels of anti-social behaviour and violence across the country."
Among the other schools to receive walk-through metal detectors are Brown's Town High, Anchovy High and Norman Manley High.
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