214.1. A school service centre and each competent authority in respect of a police force in its territory shall enter into an agreement to determine how the officers of that police force will intervene in an emergency and when an act of bullying or violence is reported to them, and to establish a mode of collaboration for prevention and investigation purposes.
The Government may, by regulation, determine the essential elements and the special stipulations that the agreement must include.
In the absence of an agreement between the school service centre and the competent authority in respect of a police force in the territory of the school service centre, the Minister and the Minister of Public Security shall jointly determine how the members of the police force will intervene in an emergency and when an act of bullying or violence is reported, and establish a mode of collaboration for prevention and investigation purposes, to stand in lieu of such an agreement.
The director general of the school service centre shall send a copy of the agreement to the principals of the educational institutions and the regional student ombudsman in charge of accountability assigned to the region in which the institutions are located.
2012, c. 19, s. 16; 2020, c. 12020, c. 1, s. 3121; 2022, c. 172022, c. 17, s. 841.