The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has ac­knowl­edged con­cerns raised by the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion about the con­di­tion of se­cu­ri­ty booths at sev­er­al schools and said it is com­plet­ing an as­sess­ment of the af­fect­ed fa­cil­i­ties.

A press re­lease from the min­istry con­firmed that the re­view is be­ing con­duct­ed with the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing Ser­vices to de­ter­mine the scope of work re­quired.

The min­istry said it will pri­ori­tise nec­es­sary re­me­di­al works for in­clu­sion in its Va­ca­tion Re­pair Pro­gramme, which cov­ers crit­i­cal re­pairs and up­grades to school in­fra­struc­ture. It added that it re­mains fo­cused on main­tain­ing safe and se­cure school en­vi­ron­ments and will con­tin­ue en­gag­ing rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers as the process moves for­ward.