Sweden also intends to increase camera surveillance in schools. The new laws are expected to enter into force in the summer.
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The Swedish Government and its Support Party The Swedish Democrats intend to regulate new laws that improve school safety after the Örebro mass shooting, including Broadcasting Company SVT and tabloid aftonbladet tell.
With the new laws, schools will be allowed to investigate the students’ goods in the future. In addition, schools should ensure that the doors remain locked during school days and that outside individuals will not enter. Camera surveillance is also to be improved.
The government and the Swedish Democrats also intend to tighten the demand for school emergency plans so that they will be the responsibility of the principals in the future.
The laws apply to elementary schools, high schools and vocational schools, and partly also preschool. They are to be adjusted at a rapid pace so that they are in effect in early July, the government and the Swedish Democrats reported at their press conference.
Sweden already said that it would limit the availability of certain semi -automatic weapons.
The mass shooters killed ten victims and last week at the Adult Education Center in Örebro, Sweden.
In Finland, teachers and principals were given the right to investigate the goods of schoolchildren in 2014 for reasoned reason.