The Maldives Police Service needs to amend its policies in order to adequately address violence in schools and academic isntitutions, said former police commissioner Abdulla Riyaz.

MP Riyaz, currently a member of the opposition leadership and parliamentary representative for Kinbidhoo constituency, said that the police needs to lay down a framework to address the issue.

Riyaz also stressed on the importance of doing so in a sustainable manner, and in this regard called on the police to go about reinstating security to public schools, which was in place some time ago.

Then, a police officer had been posted outside every state-operated academic institutions, not unlike how an officer is currently posted outside hospitals and banks.

Officers of the Maldives Police Service have on Thursday been posted outside schools in capital city Malé after a series of violent incidents took place in them this week.