Scholastic Program

The Crime Stoppers Fiji Scholastic Program designed to instill discipline among students, promote the importance of assisting and caring for others, and educate students to become socially responsible/ law-abiding students with the aim of providing a safer environment to study and work for both students and teachers.

Police Constable Unaisi Butukoro who currently heads the Scholastic Program nationwide has been working with Divisional Community Policing officers visiting schools to create awareness on the Scholastic Program.

The sessions were also an opportunity to talk about issues impacting young lives which included cyber-crime, sexual offences, drugs, and juvenile offences, where the elements and penalties of the crimes were openly discussed.

The Fiji Police Force understands that the safety and well-being of our young children and youths is a shared responsibility, where we all have a role to play in keeping them safe and out of harm's way as they are vulnerable to becoming victims of crime, and in the absence of constant guidance, could also find themselves being the perpetrators of crime.

Through such visitations, we are trying to empower students to know that there are real and serious consequences in engaging in illegal activities contrary to the opinions of their peers.

Peer pressure is real, but by empowering students with knowledge of the law, they are sure to make informed decisions that will keep them from ending up on the wrong side of the law.

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