Metal detectors for students: how the police operate at the lyceum in the Korabelnyi District

In Mykolaiv, as part of the project “Officer of the Educational Safety Service”, police officers are now permanently working in 23 educational institutions.

This was reported on April 30, 2026, by the Mykolaiv City Council, citing the head of the city education department Hanna Lychko.

The project started in September 2025. Its aim – to strengthen the safety of children in the city’s educational institutions and to prevent situations that may threaten students and education staff. Police officers in educational institutions control access, prevent the bringing in of dangerous items, conduct preventive sessions and carry out preventive work with students and parents. Officers also have the right to draw up administrative protocols for offenses, which should increase families’ responsibility for their children’s behavior.

In addition to the presence of law enforcement, educational institutions are being technically reinforced. In 48 institutions video surveillance has already been installed.

Walk-through metal detectors operate in 6 institutions:

• No. 2;
• No. 19;
• No. 22;
• No. 38;
• No. 55;
• the lyceum named after Oleh Olzhych, located in the Korabelnyi District.

In wartime, safety in educational institutions – is not a formality, but a daily necessity, especially when it comes to controlling access, preventing conflicts and keeping dangerous items out of school premises.

Reminder: earlier we wrote:

• Shelters, water and “panic buttons”: how Mykolaiv summed up education for 2025 — and what was omitted in the figures
• During an alert, children were taken out of a shelter: Mykolaiv parents shocked by the school’s negligence
• Shelter readiness or “Entrance forbidden”: how students are protected in the Korabelnyi District during the war
• Already welcomed its first visitors: a safety class opened in the Korabelnyi District lyceum
• Children have nowhere to go: kindergartens in Korabelnyi are being closed due to lack of shelters

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