East Kazakhstan region addressed the issues of anti-terrorist security in educational institutions

In fulfillment of the instructions of the Anti-Terrorism Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the officers of the regional akimat, national security agencies and the police of East Kazakhstan region held prevention activities aimed at explaining the instructions for organizing anti-terrorist security of terrorism vulnerable educational and scientific facilities.

The information and explanatory meetings held on 11-12 May, 2022 were attended by the first leaders and officers responsible for anti-terrorist security of 674 higher, secondary special, secondary and preschool educational institutions of the region.

The meeting addressed a set of issues on how to protect educational institutions, such as:

- terrorist threats to educational and scientific facilities;

- efforts of officials of educational and scientific facilities to ensure the security of the facility and priority actions in case of a terrorist threat;

- the procedure for conducting public control over the state of anti-terrorist security of terrorism vulnerable facilities.   

It should be noted that the anti-terrorist security of facilities is ensured by the creation of conditions aimed at preventing illegal entry into facilities, suppressing attempts to commit acts of terrorism at facilities, detecting signs of preparation or commission of acts of terrorism, and minimizing and eliminating the consequences of possible terrorist threats.

To achieve the above stated goals, the lecturers instructed the staff of educational institutions:

- to set access control;

- to organize constant control over the established procedure for access to the facility of visitors and vehicles;

- to protect facilities by the forces of trained employees or by concluding an agreement with the subjects of security activities;

- to ensure the strengthening of the facility in engineering and technical terms by means to detect illegal entry into the facility;

- to carry out the prevention of extremism among learners (legal education, cultivating a negative emotional attitude towards extremism);

- to improve the material and technical base in terms of engineering and technical equipment of the facility;

- to develop algorithms for addressing the possible terrorist threats;

- to organize the timely notification of authorized agencies, employees, learners, as well as informing the parents of students and learners regarding their actions during the commission of an act of terrorism and after it;

- to draw up and maintain up-to-date passports of the ATS of the facility in a timely manner.