Mitchell’s Plain cluster commander Major General Vearey maintains Mitchell’s Plain police will not conduct search operations at schools, as it fails to address the underlying socio-economic problems rooted in many households.

“Using policing to deter crime at schools is not the best solution. We are there to prevent and investigate crime and not be used as a whipping stick,” he says.

“If a school identifies problematic children, we engage them in our social crime prevention programmes which enable transformation.”

At last…..a top cop that realises drugs are NOT the problem – they are a symptom of the problem.

Top cop gives school searches the thumbs down
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Criminalising bad behaviour at schools fails to address the root causes, says Mitchell’s Plain cluster commander Major General Jeremy Vearey…. …read more