DARLISTON, Westmoreland - The Darliston Police in Westmoreland have embarked on an initiative called “Adopt a School Programme” aimed at instilling discipline in the minds of students within that community.

“Since we have come up with the initiative, we have had several school lectures during visits to the Maud McLeod High School. In some of our lectures we have challenged the students. We have encouraged them to resist engaging in deviant behaviour,” explained Sergeant Deniese Robinson Fray, the officer in charge of the Darliston Police Station and who conceptualised the programme less than a month after she was assigned to the station.

Sergeant Robinson Fray noted that since the inception of the programme at the start of the 2015/2016 school year, “students loitering in the town of Darliston has become a thing of the past”.

Under the initiative, some nine schools in the Darliston area — primary, junior high and high schools — have been adopted by at least one member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

Sergeant Robinson Fray stressed that her team is committed to the task of shaping and creating a change in the young people of the area.

“I must fulfil my purpose here. I want to leave a mark… to make the schools and wider community safe,” she emphasised.

She also wants to foster an excellent community-police relationship.

Sergeant Robinson Fray, who is one of the lawmen assigned to the 40-year-old Maud McLeod High School under the ‘Adopt a School Programme’, was speaking with the Jamaica Observer West recently following a community meeting at that school.

Source: Jamaica Observer