Canadian national security program for Schools in 2014

Portal

Provide new technologies to assist the Canadian government in a national school security program:

to reduce the probability of incidents,

to respond more effectively in case of emergencies,

to globally collect data to measure the impact of the government efforts in security programs.

Our Mission

Canadian government

Canadian province ministries of education

School Boards across Canada

Public and private schools (K12 to University)

Parents and students

First responders (police, firefighters...)

Academic researchers

Canadian Public Safety Ministry

Beneficiaries of the program

Graffiti

Vandalism

Bullying, violence

Harassment

Hacking

Cheating

Hate sites

Extortion

Cybercrime

Street Gangs

Drugs (GHB…)

Sexual exploitation

Child pornography

Listed threats in our schools

Dawson Canada 13-09-2006

W. R. Myers High School (Alberta)

28-04-1999

Polytechnique (Quebec)

06-12-1989

Based on 100 schools in 5 School boards: Lack of risk analysis Misuse of security systems Lack of monitoring Lack of system interoperability Missing Canadian school security

standards No national data to measured impacts

and efforts Lack of good practices exchanges

between institutions Lack of training

Our solution:

PEPS Portal

Our observations

1. School self assessment, based on our national template in the portal

2. Review and recommendations by supervisory authority 3. Visit and validation by supervisory authority 4. Optional school certification (for 5 years)5. Real time monitoring of incidents and emergency in all

Canadian school 6. Mass alert system7. Complete follow-up from opening event to closed file8. Best practices: fast & tested solutions, accessible to all schools9. Annual national seminar: training to school managers10. Data mining by academic and government researchers

Our solutions in 10 steps

Stakeholders

Academic researchers

First responders: police, firefighter…

Students

Parents, parents associations

Teachers School administrator

School personnel

School security responsible

School boards

Public safety ministry

Other government agencies and ministries

Portal

PEPS Portal

First responders

Portal

International leader in school securitySafer educational environmentImproved cost/benefits ratioStandardization of provincial security programsTrend measure of security improvementNation-wide forum for best practices sharingAnnual National Conference on School SafetyDigital emergency procedures

Benefits for the Canadian government – School and famillies

Benefits for school boards and schools

Reinforced efficiency of security systems

Real time management of all incidents reports

Mass alert emergency and rapid response

Direct information during crisisEvents notification (closed schools, storms…)Security best practices access and citizenship

involvement Information on threats (drugs, suicide, bullying…)

Benefits for parents and students

Partnership to establish a national program with the Public safety minister.

What’s next?