{"id":203448,"date":"2023-09-04T06:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=203448"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:54:50","slug":"ministry-of-education-to-beef-up-school-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/04\/ministry-of-education-to-beef-up-school-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Education to beef up school security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Ministerio-de-Educacion-Listin-Diario-1024x507.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203488\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>School security has been more and more becoming an issue to tackle. Since July 2023 the Ministry of Education (Minerd) has been purchasing instruments for the school police to use: handcuff, batons, pepper pray, flashlights and whistles. The initial tender for the purchases was issued in January of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering the millions of school children, the numbers associated with the purchase (RD$18 million) were not really impressive: Just 15 pairs of handcuffs and 15 pepper spray cannisters to go along with a thousand flashlights and 7,800 police batons and a thousand whistles. However, it appears that the purchase might be on hold since not all of the members of the committee that supervises these things is in agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/educacion\/20230901\/minerd-licita-compra-esposas-gas-pimienta-bastones-antimotines_771080.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School security has been more and more becoming an issue to tackle. Since July 2023 the Ministry of Education (Minerd) has been purchasing instruments for the school police to use: handcuff, batons, pepper pray, flashlights and whistles. The initial tender for the purchases was issued in January of this year. Considering the millions of school &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/04\/ministry-of-education-to-beef-up-school-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203490,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203448\/revisions\/203490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}