Education Minister Andrew Holness said that school principals and the Jamaica Constabulary Force would be collaborating much more, to ensure a smoother flow of information between them, to enable the police to respond to incidents involving students more effectively.

"I think one of the problems we face is that many things are happening, but they are not being reported to the formal law enforcement system so that we can have a proper evaluation of the situation. So, we have now sent out to all the schools contact numbers for all the ground commanders, the officers in charge and local commanders of the security forces so that they can exchange information and the principals can, from what they are picking up from their schools, pass this on to the police so they can do their own evaluation and better direct their resource to deal with these problems," he said in a JIS news release.

This collaboration between the police and principals is part of the ministry's efforts to address the recent cases of brutal attacks on the nation's children. The minister sought to assure that children are relatively safe in school. "In fact, they are safer in schools than in public areas, and sometimes even safer than at their homes, and I am doing my best to ensure that our principals have a culture of safety and security ingrained in their minds, that they realise that this is now a function of management, and they have to execute it like any other management function," Holness stressed.