As the principal or owner of a boarding school you are in a position of outstanding responsibility. The parents confide their children to your school not only for education, but also in the full trust that they are save there – protected and always under good supervision.
The challenge:
From a security perspective a school is a hybrid between a bank (nobody should be able to break in) and a prison (no student should be able to sneak out), but without looking like a bank or a prison.
It´s not only about protecting the students against any kind of intruders, it´s also about ensuring that no student can sneak out. If anything would happen to a student while having left the school unauthorized, especially during the night, the school and it´s principal would for sure be answerable. Not to forget about the reputation of your school if an incident happens to a student who has sneaked out.
One may argue that there are watchmen – but in many cases this does not address the real issue. Reality is often different: Students sneak out in groups, they are usually faster and outnumber the watchmen. What shall a watchman do? And more than once it has been reported that watchmen were scared or even beaten when trying to report the suspects.
And here it comes when our services may help you:
The service:
We are offering special security services for schools with dog handlers and guard dogs that are especially educated to work at schools in order to
- Protect your school and your students against any kind of intruders.
- Pretend students from sneaking out.
Our handlers and dogs are not bribable – and we exchange the handlers regularly to avoid too much socializing. We also have female dog handlers of whom we have learned that they are sometimes better when it comes to communication/mediation in situations of conflict.
Flexible Response:
You may raise the valid concern, that you don´t want your students to be bitten by a dog. This will of course not happen unless the handler is aggressed. Our dogs are highly and especially educated for “flexible response” when it comes to issues. There are three levels of escalation to ensure best protection on one hand and avoid any accidents. Our dog handlers are specifically educated to work at schools and know how to handle the various sitations:
- Level 1: Barking, sprinting towards the suspect, scaring and trying to stop him.
- Level 2: Pretending to attack, jumping on the suspect, but without biting. We have never seen anybody who didn´t stop after this.
- Level 3: Real attack. The dog will do this only on a specific command or if the dog handler is aggressed. Usually only when a crimimnal intruder has been detected.
I hope we could raise your interest and for further information or a presentation of our security concepts our team will be gladly at your disposal. You may also check the document „Watchman vs. Dog Handler with Guard Dog“ on this website to see further benefits.