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“Chil­dren don’t do those things. Chil­dren don’t do that.”

This was the re­sponse of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to two in­stances of in­dis­ci­pline at schools where po­lice of­fi­cers were as­signed at the start of the new school term.

Speak­ing with re­porters yes­ter­day at the launch of the UNDP’s Re­gion­al Hu­man De­vel­op­ment Re­port 2025, at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, St Ann’s, Alexan­der said that al­ready more schools have re­quest­ed a po­lice pres­ence, and there are moves to place ad­di­tion­al of­fi­cers in schools.