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Increasing security for schoolchildren in Kosovo
Members of Local Public Safety Committees (LPSC) have identified violence in schools as a persistent problem and proposed installation of surveillance cameras to decrease violence and provide a safer environment for pupils. To improve security in and around schools, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo funded the installation of indoor and outdoor cameras in over 25 primary schools throughout Kosovo.
Most recently, the OSCE Mission helped the LPSC in Osojane/Osojan, which is responsible for six Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb villages in western Kosovo, to install 13 surveillance cameras in the primary school Ndre Mjeda in Rakosh/Rakoš, a village in the municipality of Istog/Istok.
Pupils gather to attend the inaugural ceremony of the installation of surveillance cameras in their school in Rakosh/Rakoš, Istog/Istok municipality, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Jan Braathu (l), the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Naim Sadriu (r), the Director of the Ndre Mjeda Primary School in Rakosh/Rakoš, greet each other as they join the students and teachers in celebrating the inauguration of surveillance cameras, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
The newly installed outdoor surveillance camera overlooks the front yard of the Ndre Mjeda Primary School, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Jan Braathu, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, speaks to students, school officials and parents of Rakosh/Rakoš village and Istog/Istok municipal officials about importance of partnership, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Hajrush Shoshi, the Istog/Istok municipal director of education, addresses the crowd, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Pupils of the Ndre Mjeda Primary School prepare to give a performance to honour the presence of OSCE Head of Mission Braathu at the inauguration of surveillance cameras, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
The cameras that monitor the pupils and teachers at all times were installed to increase security in and around the school upon the initiative of the LPSC in Osojane/Osojan, supported by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Following the ceremony, OSCE Head of Mission Braathu speaks to school officials and teachers about the importance of security for the wellbeing of children, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Enver Boletini (c), the Head of the LPCS in Osojane/Osojan, greets Jan Braathu, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and expresses his gratitude for the Mission’s support in helping to increase security for pupils, Rakosh/Rakoš, 22 March 2019. (OSCE/Yllka Fetahaj)
Security guard monitors the situation through cameras in the control room in the Anton Zako Çajupi Primary School in Bardhosh/Brnica, in the municipality of Prishtinë/Priština, 5 December 2018. (OSCE/Besfort Oruçi)