Since the start of the school year, the schools of Fay-la-Triouleyre and Noustoulet have been equipped with an anti-intrusion device, the installation of which was subsidized by the Region and the State.
“We are delighted.” At the Sumène school, in Fay-la-Triouleyre, Audrey Uggeri can finally leave her whistle in the closet. The small establishment she manages has just been equipped with an anti-intrusion alarm. A “reassuring” novelty presented Friday in Saint-Germain-Laprade, “the first commune in Haute-Loire to benefit from the regional anti-intrusion system”.
The system, which has also been used at the Des Quatre Chemins school in Noustoulet, is “very easy to use”, comments the Region's special advisor, Laurent Wauquiez. Staff only have to press one of the buttons which appeared in classrooms or corridors during the All Saints holidays, to trigger an audible alarm “different from that which sounds in the event of fire,” underlines the deputy mayor, Mireille Defay. Furthermore, the device, once it is activated, automatically transmits a message to the gendarmerie as well as to elected officials in the area. “This allows us to raise the alarm very quickly,” agrees Warrant Officer Bertrand Chauvinc, security referent for the gendarmerie.
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Operational since the start of the school year, the device aims to protect schoolchildren and teachers from intrusions, but can also, according to Mayor Guy Chapelle, be triggered in the event of an industrial accident. A risk to which the commune of Saint-Germain-Laprade is exposed, in particular due to the presence in its area of Fareva la Vallée, a Seveso classified site. If “child safety is priceless”, recalls Laurent Wauquiez, the investment is almost painless for the municipalities. Whether to install a videophone, a sound alarm or any other equipment linked to the Special Security Plan (PPMS), aid is granted by the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region (up to 30%), but also by the State (33%). In Fay-la-Triouleyre, the installation of the anti-intrusion alarm cost €6,000 in total. The municipality paid less than 1,000.
Ophélie Crémillieux
