Gyeongbuk Provincial Office of Education Cuts School Safety Accidents by Half Compared to Last Year... "24-Hour CCTV Monitoring"

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] The Gyeongbuk Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced on the 29th that the number of safety accident reports from real-time monitoring of school CCTV at the integrated control center last year was 165 cases, a decrease of 171 cases or 49% compared to 336 cases reported in 2019.

Gyeongbuk Province explained that this is due to the gradual expansion and promotion of the project linking school CCTV with local government integrated control centers, which started in 2012, resulting in significant effects in preventing school violence and crimes.

The integrated control centers of 23 local governments in the province monitor 7,028 outdoor CCTV cameras installed at 714 elementary, middle, and special schools in real-time 24 hours a day by 233 control personnel. By school type, there are 5,038 cameras at 489 elementary schools, 1,916 cameras at 217 middle schools, and 74 cameras at 8 special schools.

Last year, the integrated control centers detected 165 signs of incidents during school CCTV monitoring and immediately reported them to police stations, fire stations, and the respective schools to prevent school safety accidents.

The types of school safety accidents identified were 11 cases of school violence, 9 cases of crimes such as theft, 43 cases of facility damage including fires, and 102 cases of student misconduct. These incidents were promptly reported by the local government integrated control centers to police stations (88 cases), fire stations (10 cases), the respective schools (56 cases), and local governments (11 cases) to prevent school safety accidents in advance.

Shim Won-woo, Director of the Education Safety Division at the Gyeongbuk Provincial Office of Education, said, "We will continue to accelerate the creation of a safe and reliable school environment trusted by students and parents through efficient real-time monitoring of school CCTV."

Meanwhile, the installation of elementary school CCTV began linking in 2012 and was completed in 2018. CCTV for middle and special schools was linked starting in 2019, the first nationwide, and the linkage was completed in 2020.

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