Drop in drug cases among students in Oman Awareness campaigns and an increase in educational programmes on the ill effects of drugs, conducted in schools across the Sultanate by the Royal Oman Police (ROP) have led to a significant decline in drug abuse cases among students in recent years.
According to police officials, there is no cause of concern over drug abuse thanks to intensive nationwide awareness campaigns that are being conducted in schools.
Major Sulaiman Al Tamtami, the head of the Legal Department at the Directorate General of Combating Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, said in this context: “The ROP has exerted great efforts in protecting schoolchildren from the menace of drugs. There is no cause of concern as there are reports of very few cases of drug abuse among school students at Omani schools.” One of the main reasons behind school students resorting to the scourge of drugs is that one parent or a family member of the child is a drug user themselves, which has an impact on children.”
Al Tamimi made these comments when he was hosted by the weekly ROP radio show, Al Ayn Al Sahira.
Al Tamtami said that repeated awareness programmes across schools conducted by ROP and the Ministry of Education have contributed bringing down the number of drug abuse among schools students. The police have run 48 awareness programmes in as many schools in Muscat Governorate in the first semester alone this year, and 27 programmes in South Batinah.
“There is a widely positive response from students and they will get to know more about the perils of drugs,” he said, and called upon parents to look after their children by giving them proper attention and taking good care of them.
In addition to this, Maimunah Al Mandhari, the assistant director of the Office of Undersecretary of Education, said: “Several educational programmes are carried out at Omani schools, which have contributed in bringing down the number of cases of drug abuse among students. Fawasil, one of these programmes, which is targeted towards students up to the age of 12, aims to empower and protect them from dangerous behaviour.”
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