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Three-year monitoring: Schools are unsafe, over 800 cases of physical violence, students with weapons

2025-12-08 20:27:13Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Three-year monitoring: Schools are unsafe, over 800 cases of physical violence,

Unsafe schools is the conclusion reached by the Supreme State Audit Office after an audit conducted from September 2021 to 2024.

Monitoring for almost 4 years on the role of security officers and the work done in educational institutions has resulted in an ineffective process, due to a lack of institutional coordination, while from the Ministry of Education's budget only 0.4% to 0.6% of the total budget goes to security.

"The most frequent problem is that of physical violence, with 892 cases referred in the period under audit focus. Psychological/verbal violence ranks second, with 333 cases in these years. The third, among the most worrying problems facing school safety, is bullying, which was reported 186 times in the same period. Also of concern are: threats/blackmail/harassment, with 178 cases and drug/cigarette/alcohol use, with 133 cases," says the SAI report.

The report reveals that school safety indicators have significantly deteriorated throughout the pre-university education system in the first period of 2024-2025, where in just 4 months, 528 incidents were recorded, led by physical violence, and 8 students were caught with weapons. The failure to cover all schools with security officers has also compromised security in educational settings. But even where there are security officers, it is clear that the activity exercised by them does not respond to the needs of the school, as there is a lack of physical control of students and school facilities.

"There are districts like Kukës and Gjirokastra where there is one security officer for every 25 schools, while in the Tirana district there is one security officer for every 4-3 schools," the report states.

Reporting conflicts or incidents in schools is not a legal obligation for security officers, is another finding of the SAI, where although reporting may occur, that data is not further processed or analyzed by the National Agency for Pre-University Education.

The audit also found the pressure under which security officers work, when they have to report to the database created by ASCAP, without specifying the school where the incident occurred.

"The data shows that the number of cases prevented from September 2021 to December 2024 is 182 in total, a figure that proves that cases are only partially reported. Security officers have stated that they felt pressured by principals to report, as their school could be considered a bad school if there were reports of cases or incidents."

This brings an inaccurate and incomplete picture of reality in schools, and also affects a significant deficiency in taking concrete measures to guarantee the provision of a quality service by security officers. Therefore, the SAI recommends that within 2026 there be a dedicated structure for reporting problems, instructing the Ministry of Education to establish a legal and functional mechanism for collecting information and reporting incidents to increase credibility in schools.


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