Delhi Police will track down school dropouts to provide a better platform

New Delhi: Delhi police will track down school dropouts to see what they are doing.

The Indian Express reported citing an senior officer that police, more than tracking down the dropouts, will counsel them and find ways to provide a ‘better platform for career’.

The officer, however, hinted at the seamy side of situation where first-timers involved in 85 percent of crimes last year.

The Delhi government has tasked the state’s Education Department to make standard operating procedure in order to share with the police the data of school dropouts automatically every six months.

Scrutinizing the data police will find out why the student left the school and will meet the dropout.

The senior police officer reportedly said that many of those dropped out started working, while some left the city and in the event of students not doing anything, police will track down the person.

Delhi Chief Secretary Dharmendra issued the directive for SOP to the Education Department at a meeting of the coordination committee earlier this month.

The BJP administration formed the committee to better govern the law and order matters.

The Chief Secretary wanted the education department to formulate the SOP within 15 days.

‘At the meeting on April 4, among other issues, two key issues — list of dropouts to be provided to Delhi Police and constitution of anti-drugs clubs and boys’ clubs in Delhi — were discussed and directions were given to the Education Department,’ the officer was quoted as saying.

The new directive to tackle dropouts, according to the officer, comes alongside the community police initiative ‘Yuva’ working since 2017 in collaboration with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Yuva aims at preventing students in the age group of 17-25 from ‘committing crimes and delinquent acts,’ according to the report.

Police in several districts of the national capital are running boys’ clubs to prevent vulnerable juveniles from engaging in unlawful activities, according to the report.

Now the government issued directive to open these clubs in all districts alongside anti-drug clubs to create awareness about drug abuse.