As some of you may have heard, today we had our second lockdown exercise for the purpose of bringing drug dogs through the building. At just about 9:00 this morning, we put the building on "lockdown" meaning no one could be in the halls and no one could enter or leave the building.
Through coordination with the Grosse Pointe Farms Police and Grosse Pointe City Police (and dog handler Mike and his dog, Raleigh), we had a coordinated effort with many municipalities to adequately search the building in just over 75 minutes.
This is essentially how the search was handled. There were at least four dogs in the building and at least five dogs in the parking lots. In the building, we searched all lockers and locker rooms, and even selected five classrooms at random to be searched. In the case of the classrooms, we moved those students to the auditorium and had them leave their coats and backpacks behind. The dogs then went through the respective classrooms looking for drugs and/or paraphernalia. When the classrooms were finished, the dogs went through the hallways to search the lockers for contraband.
Outside, the dogs searched each of the lots adjacent to the building. We searched the S-lot, J-lot, K-lot and even cars parked along the boulevard and down Fisher road. Fortunately, there were very few "hits" and of those only one turned out to be positive.
I was in the lots for the car searches. If a dog hit on a car, the student was brought outside and asked to unlock the car. The student was also asked if there might be anything in the car prior to letting the dog inside. In only one case did we find anything, and that was a small amount of marijuana.
I want to publicly thank the police officers that were involved. As mentioned earlier, there were at least nine dogs and their handlers, along with many other officers from the Farms and the City. It was a well coordinated effort that I hope serves as a deterrent for our students.
All in all, I was pleased with the findings.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
A Successful Search and Hopefully, A Deterrent
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As a parent, I applaud your efforts to keep the kids safe, but am concerned about your false sence of security that "all is well". If you hear it from the student's perspective, it is sad. They believe the school's efforts are pathetic because it is said that those who have illegal substances carry it on their bodies. With legal constraints, how does this factor in to the growing drug concerns within the schools?
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