KUCHING: Drugs abuse is one of the most common crimes affecting schools nowadays and to tackle it, both police and schools have to go to the root of the problems to eradicate it, said Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Fuzi Harun.
He said last year, a total of 577 students were arrested while in 2017, there was a total of 467 arrested.
From the statistics shown, it appeared that drugs are plaguing the schools and called for the schools to be on the lookout for students involved in drugs.
Thus, liaison officers attached to schools played an
important role to ensure that they work together with their respective schools to deal with this problem.
Fuzi’s statement was read out by detective Inspector Ting Yee Kang at the Kuching High School yesterday morning which celebrated the Liaison Officer Day.
The annual celebration was a joint effort between police and the Education Department as part of their blue ocean strategy to assist schools to deal with criminal cases which could not be handled by the schools.
A total of 1,285 criminal cases involving students nationwide in both secondary and primary schools were reported last year as compared to 1,722 in 2017,
Fuzi said despite the crime rate in schools deceasing, he said it was still a worrisome trend and called to all liaison officers to work together with their respective schools to help bring down crime rate there. Every school has a liaison officer each to deal with school crimes which comprise fighting, bullying and other criminal cases.
Ting also urged schools to report all criminal cases and not to sweep them under the carpet.
About 1,200 students and teachers attended the talk yesterday.
