Police get tough on student scraps
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Bangkok police have put in place tough measures to prevent fighting among students, including identifying individual violence-prone students and getting teachers to act as the "eyes and ears" for the police, while Education Minister Suchart Thadathamrongw
Metropolitan Police spokesman Preeda Sathaworn said police precincts had been instructed to obtain information about violence-prone schools in their jurisdictions and to conduct weapons searches in cooperation with the schools. Police would gather information about violence-prone students and alumni to prevent them starting brawls, as well as hunting for those wanted for violence-related crimes, while patrol officers would look out for students packing weapons.
Metropolitan Police Region 6 are to dispatch officials to guard areas surrounding.
