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Security stepped up for school parties


Security stepped up for school parties

1    Security on foreign school   4    “We are concerned that, as other
 trips is being stepped up sources dry up for smugglers, school
 following a number of parties will become more vulnerable
 incidents in which coaches carrying to these sorts of crimes.”
 pupils were used for drug smuggling.5    After five months of consultation
2    Last autumn, three suitcases of with school authorities, anti-drug
 cannabis resin worth £1.5m were experts and HM Customs and
 found among the luggage of a group Excise, it has introduced a bag-
 of children returning from a foreign tagging scheme. In future, all
 trip. Another school party was luggage on its trips will have special
 delayed by 12 hours at Dover after labels that will be allocated and
 cannabis with a street value of checked by the party leader in
 £500,000 was discovered on their conjunction with the coach driver.
 vehicle as they headed home from6    “At the end of a holiday,
 Spain. children come out of the hotel and
3    Top Class Travel, a specialist throw their bags into a pile in the
 operator for school trips, is street. It’s easy for someone who has
 sufficiently disturbed to have been watching the hotel to add an
 launched a scheme with the Anti- extra one or two,” says Manson. “It
 Drugs Alliance: “We’ve had minor is particularly common in Holland,
 incidents in the past, but last year we but it is also now happening in
 saw a couple of serious ones,” said France and Spain.”
 Jim Manson, managing director at The Sunday Times
 Top Class.