RATCHABURI, 15 May 2015 Ratchaburi province has been developing police initiatives to stamp out drug use in schools.
Meeting at the provincial police station, Deputy Ratchaburi Governor Pipat Ekpaphun discussed collaborations between police units and school staff on the One Policeman One School project.
The meeting included police officers, district chiefs, and directors of educational institutes, and other related civil servants. The agenda included issues such as drugs, gambling, pornography, fighting, gaming shops, entertainment venues and other risk factors both inside and outside of the school.
The project will see participation from teachers, police officers and schools, which will group students into non-risk, risk, drug abuse, and drug dealing categories, so as to properly and efficiently solve the problem.
There are 16 educational institutes in Ratchaburi province that are under the pilot project. The province expected to reach its target number of participating schools by the end of the FY2015.
