PTAs, students strengthen campus security
TEACHERS, parents and students of Dagupan City agreed on the need to strengthen campus security when they participated in a one-day Campus Security Management Seminar Workshop on June 23 at the CSI Stadia initiated by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and the City School Division.
Attended by 300 participants that included members of the Parent Teacher Association, security personnel of each school and members of the tri-media, the day-long workshop was conducted by the Philippine National Police through the Police Community Relations Group headed by Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz with the help of the Campus Security Management Association of the Philippines (CSMAP).
Fernandez said the seminar workshop became more urgent after a female student of the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS) was murdered inside the school campus on June 1, just three days before classes for this school year opened.
The victim, Madelaine Faith Goyena, 13, a sophomore at DCNHS, was brutally stabbed 17 times inside the campus and her body was found in a grassy area at the back of the school.
“We have to take a move and impress upon all stakeholders on the need to strengthen campus security for the protection of pupils and students as well as the teachers,” Fernandez said.
QUALITY EDUCATION
Meanwhile, City Schools Division Superintendent Alma Ruby Torio said the seminar workshop was the “call of the times” as it is related to the overall objective of the Department of Education to give quality education to the children.
Torio said DepEd’s aim of providing quality education could not be attained if the children are not secured and do not feel safe inside and outside the campuses.
Speakers during the seminar workshop were Enrico de Guzman, president of CSMAP and Saint Lourdes School in Mandaluyong City who talked on Campus Threats; Superintendent Harris Fama, acting chief of the Information and Communication Development of the Police Community Relations Group at Camp Crame who discussed Campus Security Operations; and Regional Trial Court Judge Maria Concepcion Yumang of Branch 53 in Guagua, Pampanga, who discussed the topic “A Look on Violence against Children in Schools” and “The Child in Conflict with the Law”.
Superintendent Romeo Caramat Jr., Dagupan chief of police, sent his representative to talk on “Dagupan City Peace and Order”.
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