Does Searching Vulnerable Children Help Tackle Knife Crime?
By Community Correspondent: Samuel Hopcroft Have you ever heard of being searched and scanned before you’re allowed to enter your own school? Tiffin Boy’s School, Kingston, was subject to a police search on Tuesday 10th November as every child entering the school was searched before they were forced to empty their bags to show police officers their private belongings. The school and their local team of police both said that ‘Operation Blunt’ was well thought out as it encouraged children not to carry weapons on them at school and it raised awareness about knife crime but the truth was it was a waste of time for the pupils; being forced to line up to get in to school as you would at an airport before boarding a plane; it was a hassle for the teachers who stood by the gate for an hour in the icy temperatures of the morning and most importantly it was a waste of time for the police, who should have been patrolling Kingston’s streets and stopping muggings and gang crime instead of criticis
