Novi Ligure: Drug Detection Dogs at School in the Legality Education Project
The high school's DS, Professor Michele Maranzana, highlighted the importance of this combination as a tool for preventing and combating the spread of drugs in schools.
Novi Ligure: Drug Detection Dogs at School in the Legality Education Project
Rum, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois, and Berla, a six year old German Shepherd, both in service in the anti-drug unit of Turin, led the Carabinieri through classrooms, corridors and common areas of the “Edoardo Amaldi” High School in search of drugs, as part of a legality education project close to the school principals of the province.
The high school DS, professor Michael Maranzana, highlighted the importance of this combination as a tool for prevention and fight against the spread of drugs in schools.
Today's check is part of the preventive activity carried out daily by the Carabinieri of Novese and the entire Provincial Command of Alessandria, constantly engaged in the fight against drug dealing in the territory, with a particular focus on schools and youth community and recreational centres.
The service has allowed to report to the Prefecture a minor found in possession of hashish detained for personal use, which the Carabinieri have subjected to seizure.
The amazement and interest among students for the inspections carried out by drug-sniffing dogs demonstrate how these activities can represent an effective deterrent, perhaps even more than a normal check by the Carabinieri.
The school principal renewed his trust in this type of collaboration with the Carabinieri, which in addition to its preventive purpose has an educational aspect, as provides food for thought which teachers can work on with students after Carabinieri activities.
Drug controls are an important part of the institutional service of the Carabinieri and seek to put a stop to the continued use of narcotic substances, unfortunately increasingly widespread among young people. Prevention and contrast controls are accompanied by repression controls carried out through more complex investigations that aim to identify the leaders and "big fish" of the organizations and associations that manage drug trafficking and dealing, not only on national territory.
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