After entrance scanners, dog squads in the region's high schools?

Every day, a new announcement is being made regarding the security of middle schools in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, which could soon see drug-detection dogs arriving within their walls. Three days after experimenting with the use of electromagnetic scanners at the entrance to the Charles-Mérieux high school in Lyon , the Region is reportedly considering implementing random checks in high schools using canine units.

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This is what Fabrice Pannekoucke, president of the regional council, announced to our colleagues at Le Progrès , in a wide-ranging interview conducted a year after his election. The LR elected official, who took over from Laurent Wauquiez at the head of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, believes " that it is imperative to tackle drug trafficking and consumption very strongly ."

And to achieve this, the Savoyard elected official wants to " conduct unannounced checks with dog squads in our establishments." " I have submitted this proposal to the prefecture and the ministry. I am now awaiting their approval and the means to do so, " the regional president continued.

Before concluding, with lucidity: " I am obviously aware that we will not eliminate the entire problem of trafficking with this initiative, but I do not want the Region to be complicit." A new proposal that should raise the hackles of the regional opposition, which at the beginning of the week denounced the " security escalation " of the Region concerning the experimentation of scanners at the entrance to high schools.

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