EDUCATION stakeholders have welcomed the plan to deploy Special Reserve Police (SRP) officers at high-risk schools across Trinidad and Tobago as a means of addressing school violence and indiscipline.

In a release on August 23, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service said it has taken a decisive step in the fight against school violence by assigning 95 specially trained Special Reserve Police officers to schools deemed high-risk.

It said the officers, who underwent specialised school-oriented training, form part of the 244 newly sworn-in SRPs who took their oaths of office during a ceremony at the Marabella South Secondary School on August 22.