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Students and Parents Can Report Directly... "Aiming to Prevent New Types of School Violence in Advance"

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The police have started to prevent new types of school violence frequently occurring on social networking services (SNS).

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced that, in cooperation with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, it will operate the ‘School Bell System’ from the 15th to proactively prevent new types of school violence.

This measure comes in response to the rapid increase in students and parents suffering damage due to failure to recognize new types of school violence using SNS, such as face-synthesis deepfakes or KakaoTalk account hijacking.

Accordingly, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education agreed to establish a system that can notify students, parents, and citizens collectively both online and offline when new types of school violence crimes occur.

To this end, the police formed the ‘School Bell Task Force (TF) Team’ composed of current teachers and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, and designed the School Bell System reflecting the opinions of students, parents, and teachers.

School Bell System Diagram. Provided by Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency

The School Bell System selects cases of new types of school violence and produces them as card news and posters to share with citizens every two months.

The School Bell TF Team selected cases focusing on ▲ school violence incidents reported to the 117 Center (School Violence Reporting Center) ▲ cases from the School Violence Countermeasure Deliberation Committee ▲ school violence incidents recognized during SPO (School Police Officer) activities that require dissemination.

They also opened an SNS channel and established a system where students and parents can directly report new types of school violence cases they recognize, allowing consumers to participate directly.

The produced materials are shared with students, parents, and citizens, and schools disseminate them by posting posters on their websites, school e-Notification systems, and school bulletin boards (1,407 schools, 20 copies each).

The police will also continue crime prevention education targeting students centered on SPOs and share activities using SNS.

Choi Kwan-ho, Commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, explained, “The core is to prevent in advance by raising awareness among students and parents through multidimensional information sharing about new types of school violence,” adding, “It is meaningful that a system has been established for parents to directly participate in public safety policies.”

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