School Security
The media sometimes writes that it's impossible to thoroughly check all students upon entering the school, and therefore no security can prevent attacks. Professionals dealing with school security issues think otherwise.
Here's what Sergey Saminsky, President of the SRO Association "School Without Danger," a man who has dedicated a quarter of a century to protecting the lives and health of people in social facilities, writes about the tragedy in Bryansk:
“There were no metal detector frames at the entrance (they were switched off – Ed.). But every security guard should have a hand-held metal detector, and according to professional standards, this security guard should receive training every shift.”
“And all those who are late must be searched by the security guard at the entrance with a handheld metal detector. All 50 cases of shootings abroad and in our country involved people who were late; here she (Alina Afanaskina – Ed.) was also late.”
“The second standard procedure: there is a typical profile based on the same algorithm, a picture of the suspected offender. And it's a spitting image of Alina.
Black combat boots, a long black coat, a hat, gloves. But she wasn't searched, and she entered the premises. If she had been searched and stopped, that would have been the end of it.”
It should be added to what is written that in real life, the security guard of the gymnasium, Galina Chertkova, at the moment Alina entered, was looking... at the ceiling... in the literal sense of the word, see the photograph.
Galina Chertkova. She had to spend a very short time in a cell. That was the extent of her punishment.
It can't even be said that some security elements were overlooked. ALL elements were completely absent: "the metal detector frame wasn't working," "there was no hand-held detector," "there was no briefing describing the typical profile of a potential shooter," "there was no visual monitoring of those entering." In essence, there was no security at all.
The responsibility for the inaction and unpreparedness of the security personnel should have been borne not only, and not so much, by Chertkova, but by her boss, businessman Sergei Poddubny, the owner of the "Excalibur" agency.
Sergey Poddubny.
For some time, like Chertkova, he sat in a cage in front of the cameras. He was not punished in any other way.