TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) Tobago officer Bradon Roberts has accused policy makers of putting “plasters on sores” in treating with the issue of student violence and indiscipline.

He was responding to the decision to have police stationed at the Signal Hill and Mason Hall Secondary schools, in Tobago as part of the government’s school-oriented policing initiative to address violence and anti-social behaviour at selected at-risk schools across the country.

In a release on September 15, the THA Division of Education, Research and Technology announced that from September 22, both schools will experience a daily presence of police officers.