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If we are accused of banging on about the role of Police and schools, we plead guilty as charged.

The reason is two irrefutable facts. 

Firstly, all, and we mean every one of the juvenile miscreants who are terrorising our community, go through the education/schools system. 

Non-attendance is the first indicator of those children who need special attention.

So it is without apology that we push for that being the place to start, ground zero of criminality, and the Police must play a critical role in this.

After much criticism of VicPol by us and others of the lack of a Police in Schools Program (PSIP), a quasi-Police Schools program was introduced. This role was added to the commitments of police, who were already overloaded. And it is the next best thing to useless in this fight. It is unfair to the members and has extremely low effectiveness in the crime fight.

The reason this pretend program won’t work is ...