Abstract:

Secondary safety is paramount to the sustainability of school performance; however, threats leveled against schools globally are interfering with safety. Schools in Kenya have experienced a horde of threats such as fire and theft coupled with radicalization. There is hardly the use of electronic security surveillance systems to mitigate threats. In Trans Nzoia County, secondary schools have been a recipient of security threats threatening the safety of the school community. Against this backdrop, this study assessed the influence of electronic security surveillance systems on the sustainability of secondary school safety in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya. The specific objective of the study was to establish the nature and extent of electronic security surveillance systems in secondary schools in Kenya. The descriptive survey research design was used to study electronic security surveillance systems in secondary school safety in Trans Nzoia County. The study population was composed of 14 secondary schools that had previous security threats and had installed electronic security surveillance systems (unit of analysis). The sampling strategy in this study was simple random and purposive sampling. Quantitative data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially with the aid of SPSS version 25. The data was analyzed at a 0.05 probability level and presented in tables and figures in percentages and frequencies. Results: CCTV was installed in all the secondary schools surveyed sampled. It was agreeable by the respondents (76.9%) that the nature and extent of electronic security surveillance systems in secondary schools promoted safety in the school community. The interaction between the electronic security surveillance systems installed in schools and the implementation of national ICT policy and school safety policy had a 29.9% impact on promoting safety in secondary schools (R2 = 0.299, (F (2, 75) = 15.966, p = 0.000). About 80.8% of the respondents agreed that electronic security surveillance systems effectively promote safety in secondary schools.