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The roll­out of po­lice of­fi­cers to some 80 schools across the coun­try un­der the Na­tion­al School Safe­ty Pro­gramme has been hit with some bumps, even as par­ents con­tin­ue to call for long-term so­lu­tions to vi­o­lence and in­dis­ci­pline.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin re­vealed this yes­ter­day. He said while most of­fi­cers have al­ready been de­ployed, a hand­ful of schools were left with­out the pres­ence of of­fi­cers on Mon­day’s first day.

“The ma­jor­i­ty, three-quar­ters or even more, has been de­ployed. There was one or two lit­tle chal­lenges that we had, and be­cause of where the school was and where the po­lice of­fi­cers were lo­cat­ed, there was a slight chal­lenge,” Ben­jamin said.