Keeping our schools safe with School Watch

During the school holiday period, empty schools can experience higher levels of criminal activity, becoming targets for unlawful entry, arson, stealing, graffiti and property damage – all of which become a cost to the community.

The School Watch program is a partnership between the Department of Education and Protective Services Group, Queensland Police Service.

The program aims to reduce criminal activity in Queensland schools and encourages everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our schools.

Department of Education said that there were 91 reported instances of vandalism and 55 break and enters at schools during the 2019/20 Christmas holidays, but these numbers could have been much higher if not for the 181 calls made to the…