The Superior North Catholic District School Board’s primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of students and staff inside Board buildings and on Board property. In partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), and the other participating local school boards, a Police/School Protocol (2015) was developed to address threat response procedures.
Threat response procedures are initiated when a high-risk incident involving weapons, hazardous chemical spill, severe weather warning, student/stranger intrusion, etc.,occurs in the school or on school property, or there are circumstances in the vicinity of the school that could endanger the lives and/or the safety of students and/or staff.
In an effort to ensure consistency between schools and law enforcement agencies across the province, three threat response procedures have been provincially introduced: