Sunnyside police embark on School Safety Talk campaign
“One puff makes one hooked onto drugs and that it is when the dealers exploit their victims,” he said,” Mavimbela warns.
Sunnyside police together with some of its stakeholders on Tuesday embarked on a School Safety Talk campaign at the Pretoria Technical high school, in Sunnyside.
The campaign is aimed at empowering learners to, among other things, identify and report bullying, crime, prevent being victims of human trafficking and understand the danger of drugs.
“Once drug dealers get you into drugs, it could result in a situation where you are trafficked to be a prostitute in other provinces or countries,” Sunnyside police spokesperson Captain Daniel Mavimbela told Rekord.
Mavimbela said human trafficking was conducted for various reasons including sourcing body parts.
He said learners should know that it is difficult to quit drugs once beginning to smoke them and the best solution to the problem is not to start.
“One puff, you are gone,” Mavimbela said.
He said although rehabilitation centres are available to help people addicted to drugs to stop, quitting was not guaranteed because of the difficulty associated with it.
“One puff makes one hooked onto drugs and that it is when the dealers exploit their victims,” he said.
Mavimbela said part of the campaign was also to speak about crime and bullying.
“During our campaign, learners were told that they were not immune from facing the law should they commit crimes,” he said.
“It was explained to them how the justice system works.”
He said they also talked about various types of bullying.
“Children were taught about cyber, physical, verbal, nonverbal and sexual bullying.”
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He said the campaign was a continuous exercise to address crime-related issues that affect the learners the most.
The stakeholders that participated in the campaign include councillors, Sunnyside CF, Community safety, Crime and Drugs Free Foundation and the national police visibility office.
The CPF thanked the police for organising the school talk campaign and said it was extremely important for the safety of the learners.
“The campaign empowers learners to be able to protect themselves against heartless criminals including drug dealers and human traffickers,” Sunnyside CPF spokesperson Caroline Oyiya said.
She vowed that the CPF would continue to support such initiatives for the benefit of the learners and the community at large.
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