Student informers for Excise

KOZHIKODE: The Student Excise Cadets (SEC), an  initiative of Kozhikode district excise department, will soon do the work of spies to trace out the students who use drugs.

It was following the  success  of Students Police Cadet that the excise department came with the  idea of SEC in the wake of increasing use of  narcotics products  by  school students, especially girls.  

The SEC was formed  during the State School Kalolsavam this year as volunteers,  but now  its members will campaign against  the narcotics products.

Kozhikode Excise Inspector M.K. Gireesh said, “it is  difficult to trace the use of drugs among students,  especially  girls.  Hence a wing of the students  could  help  identify such users. The SEC will spy  for our department directly and  we will conduct meetings with the SEC students who will submit reports on the status check of their respective schools,” he  explained.

“School students  have gone  hi-tech and tricky to use  narcotic products  with  the mini pipe-size hookah to aluminium tube and mini roller machines to wrap cigars, all imported   online,”  he  said.  

The SEC has 2,500 students  now and from this academic year  it will have anti- narcotics clubs in all the government and aided schools in  the state.