The Ivory Park Local Drug Action Committee, which the Ivory Park Police Stations’ Youth Desk is a part of, went on an outreach campaign aimed at ensuring that schoolchildren who were on recess stayed focused, safe and away from drugs.
According to Ivory Park Police Station’s spokesperson, Captain Bernard Matimulane, the three-day course ended on 27 September and learners from various schools in the Ivory Park precinct attended.
“Key focuses of the course were on drug education and how to abstain from substance abuse, how to use the school holidays to further remind and educate them on bullying in their respective schools, how not to bottle up any problems, be it personal, which they may encounter in their daily lives and to ventilate their problems by informing their parents, guardians, teachers and even the police.
“Furthermore they were warned to guard against being victims to kidnappings and abductions, and to rather walk in groups with their peers whom they are familiar with whenever they are coming from places such as schools and parks.”
Matimulane added that the workshop was part of an ongoing intervention by the Ivory Park police to bring safety awareness to the youth, be in or out of schools, in order to ensure they don’t fall victim to substance and drug abuse.
Learners were encouraged to be the extended ears and eyes of the police in the area.
“Some of the interventions that have been initiated and are already up and running are school safety programmes and adopt-a-cop initiative for which almost all of the schools are already part of.”
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