By Dex
ROBBERS have been targeting schools in the past and in that regard, schools should tighten their security systems to prevent such cases.
Schools opened for the second term last week and according to the first term’s trends, cases of robberies targeting schools were rampant.
Schools should not keep huge amounts of cash at their premises but deposit all school fees, levies, and other related school costs to financial institutions to prevent armed robberies that have emerged targeting schools for the money paid by students.
It is widely known that as the schools open, parents and guardians pay school fees, levies and other related school costs, for their children.
School authorities should, therefore, deposit all monies at financial institutions to dissuade armed robbery cases.
The issue of collecting cash by school authorities at schools should be re-appraised in view of the recent armed robbery cases. Where possible schools must insist on parents paying all fees and levies at financial institutions and minimise amounts they handle.
The relevant authorities at schools must reinforce security measures by securing the services of professional security guards from distinguished
service providers who constantly monitor and review deployments.
Apart from that, school authorities should also bolster their security systems by installing CCTV at points of entry and administration offices.
Some of the robberies are committed after they get inside information from the school staff.
Those who supply information to robbers are criminals too.
Elements of connivance, skullduggery, chicanery, humbug and conspiracy among members of the
staff has largely contributed to the success of such cases.
A person who supplied information to robbers, planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of a crime is individually responsible for that same crime.
Note that an accomplice is someone who knowingly and voluntarily aids, attempts to aid, or supports a crime. In contrast, a conspirator is a person who joins a scheme to do illegal conduct with one or more other people.
Only when his partner executes the crime an accomplice may divert attention away from witnesses or security.
An accessory is someone who aided or contributed (even by supplying information) to the commission or concealment of a crime.
There are two categories of accessories: accessory before-the-fact and accessory after-the-fact.
Unlike an accomplice, an accessory does not need to have been actually or constructively present during the commission or concealment of the crime.
Accessory before-the-fact
An accessory before-the-fact is someone who did anything to encourage, aid, or assist in any material manner in the commission of a crime, thereby participating in the design of the crime
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