TTPS: BULLYING CAN LAND YOU IN JAIL

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Acts of bullying can land you in jail. That’s the warning the TTPS and Caribbean Colour Splash issued during the Secondary Schools Anti-Bullying Conference today, at SAPA.  This bi-annual event is in its ninth year and the theme today was 'The Law and Bullying'.  Our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was in San Fernando today and tells us more.

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00:00What we're doing is breaking down the law in such a way so that the students

00:04understand that bullying is a crime and it is a punishable offense and that you

00:10can be convicted. Project manager of the Caribbean Color Splash anti-bullying

00:15conference held at Sapa on Wednesday says in their nine years of having this

00:20event it's clear that children aren't aware that bullying is a criminal act.

00:25It's a culture you know of fun and jokes and we have to let them know that

00:31there's a line that when they cross that line that they can be punished and

00:36penalized by the law. Wednesday's conference saw students from 35 South

00:42and Central Bay schools come out to the event. Addressing them was a

00:46representative of the TTPS who in speaking with TV 6 News says young

00:52people need to know they can be safe and that it is good to stand up for

00:57themselves. He says following the recent suicide of a Form 4 student in

01:01Princestown people are hurting and many other families impacted by bullying need

01:07help. He says the TTPS is ready and willing to respond to such cases and

01:13encouraged children and families to reach out to the nearest police station

01:17and report incidents. Bullying under the legislation isn't specifically

01:23spelled out but there are ingredients of harassment in terms of threatening,

01:28pushing, punching, even verbal that the police officer can adopt in terms of

01:34dealing with the offence of not just bullying but harassment as an offence.

01:38Taxation, taxing as they call it in school and under the law is called

01:43demanding money by menaces. If somebody would have taken up some piece

01:49of the property whether it's a bag or a book we look under the offence of

01:52larceny. If it's punching or hitting we look under the offence of assault and we

01:57will take it from there. Corporal Fraser says penalties for

02:01offences once it reaches to the courts can be in the form of a fine ranging

02:06from $400 to $5,000 or imprisonment for three to six months. If you commit an

02:14offence you will go to jail. You will face the courts and trust me you will go

02:19to jail for whether it's a short time or very long time. I'm calling on the

02:23children of Trinidad and Tobago please behave. It may sound very cliche but

02:28behave. Your future is yours. The choice is yours. Make the right one.

02:33Cindy Raghubandh Tika Singh TV6 News

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