Canadian national security program for Schools in 2014

1. Canadian national security program for Schools in 2014 Portal

2. Our Mission • 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.

3. Beneficiaries of the program • 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

4. Listed threats in our schools • Graffiti • Vandalism • Bullying, violence • Harassment • Hacking • Cheating • Hate sites • Extortion • Cybercrime • Street Gangs • Drugs (GHB…) • Sexual exploitation • Child pornography Polytechnique (Quebec) 06-12-1989 W. R. Myers High School (Alberta) 28-04-1999 Dawson Canada 13-09-2006

5. Our observations • 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

6. Our solutions in 10 steps • School self assessment, based on our national template in the portal • Review and recommendations by supervisory authority • Visit and validation by supervisory authority • Optional school certification (for 5 years) • Real time monitoring of incidents and emergency in all Canadian school • Mass alert system • Complete follow-up from opening event to closed file • Best practices: fast & tested solutions, accessible to all schools • Annual national seminar: training to school managers • Data mining by academic and government researchers

7. Stakeholders First responders: police, firefighter… School security responsible Public safety ministry Students School personnel Portal School boards Parents, parents associations Teachers School administrator Academic researchers Other government agencies and ministries

8. PEPS Portal

9. Portal First responders

10. Benefits for the Canadiangovernment – School and famillies • International leader in school security • Safer educational environment • Improved cost/benefits ratio • Standardization of provincial security programs • Trend measure of security improvement • Nation-wide forum for best practices sharing • Annual National Conference on School Safety • Digital emergency procedures

11. Benefits for school boards and schools • Reinforced efficiency of security systems • Real time management of all incidents reports • Mass alert emergency and rapid response

12. Benefits for parents and students • Direct information during crisis • Events notification (closed schools, storms…) • Security best practices access and citizenship involvement • Information on threats (drugs, suicide, bullying…)

13. What’s next? • Partnership to establish a national program with the Public safety minister.