The EMPD Bumper to Bumper operation is carrying on with the intention of cleaning schools of drugs and dangerous weapons.
The operation also identifies those pupils who promote the unacceptable idea of forming gangs within schools.
The Metro police, accompanied by CPF community patrollers and the Eden Park SAPS, descended on Palm Ridge and Greenfield secondary schools between 8am and 1pm, last Thursday.
Four dagga cigarettes were found in a rubbish bin located in the boys’ toilets at Greenfield Secondary School.
At Palm Ridge Secondary School, a 15-year-old boy in Grade Eight was found wearing an arm belt full of muti.
The boy claimed that he bought the belt for R100 from an inyanga, to give him super-human powers to overcome enemies.
Information obtained points to the fact that there are groups at Palm Ridge Secondary who, on Friday afternoons, engage in fist fights to pit their strengths against one another.
“Law enforcers, in collaboration with the local social worker and a representative from the Gauteng Department of Education, addressed the pupils on the dangers of drug abuse and gangsterism,” said Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.
“The Bumper to Bumper operation will continue to swoop on schools in Ekurhuleni to cleanse them of drugs, weapons and gangs.”
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