SAPS takes troubled learners on a prison tour to deter them from crime

ALIWAL NORTH: One of the mandates of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in crime prevention is focused on addressing criminal acts and behaviours and the prevention criminality among learners in schools, as well as providing safer and secure learning environments. It was with this intent that the Aliwal North Cluster Corporate Communication, Cluster Community Policing Coordinator and Aliwal North Station endorsed the Public Service Month by taking a group of problematic high school learners on a prison tour at the Goedemoed Correctional Centre.

Twelve learners from Bishop Demond Secondary School and Egqili Secondary School, accompanied by their learner support staff, were taken to the correctional facilities to observe the consequences of criminal behaviour.