Operation Trident, the Met police unit that deals with violent crime in London’s black communities is bringing its teaching to primary schools. It already runs workshops for 13-14 year olds in schools, but teachers are saying that pupils need to be reached earlier. Trident will run age appropriate classes for ten and eleven year olds on gangs, drug dealing and violence. There will no doubt be the usual outcry over children being presented with such realities at such a young age, but I think it’s a great idea. A young man we worked with last year told us that he had been given his gang name by his elder brother’s friends. He was five.
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