00:00Former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith said during his time as Commissioner,
00:05he had discussed the problem of school violence with the then Minister of Education
00:08and had recommended the use of covert officers in schools.
00:13Griffith proposed that undercover officers be placed in schools to identify those involved in gang activity and recruitment.
00:20He said the officers could operate without students knowing they were police,
00:25allowing them to gather information on what was taking place inside school compounds.
00:30What I would have recommended was covert operators.
00:33My concept was not to put uniformed officers, but undercover officers.
00:36You'd have seen it on 21 Jump Street and so forth.
00:39There's a lot that's going on in these schools pertaining to gang infiltration,
00:43persons selling drugs, gangs recruiting young persons in schools.
00:47He said undercover officers could work within schools while posing as people such as plumbers, cleaners, masons or cooks.
00:54According to Griffith, the objective would be to determine who was involved in gang activity and the recruitment of students.
01:03You're not going to get that information by an covert police officer.
01:08Undercover officers going into the schools, acting as plumbers, cleaners, masons, cooks, whatever.
01:14They will start to find out who are the persons that are being used to infiltrate into the schools
01:19to cause gang violence, to recruit gang members and so forth.
01:23Griffith criticized the use of uniformed officers as a primary response,
01:27arguing that an officer stationed at one point in a school would not necessarily be able to intervene
01:33when a fight broke out elsewhere.
01:35He said the presence of covert officers could have a greater deterrent effect
01:40because students would not know who was working with the police.
01:44Alexander Bruce Wall, TV6 News.
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