Australian police wake truants and drive them to school

Students wagging class have been hauled out of bed and carted off to school in police cars in a crackdown on truancy in the Logan West area.

The students were among 63 truants picked up by police and returned to Park Ridge and Browns Plains high schools between Monday and Wednesday last week. And next time, police warn they will start taking action against parents.

Ten officers on horses, trail bikes and bicycles and two Logan City Council park rangers were involved in Operation Chrome.



Browns Plains officer in charge Senior Sergeant Andrew Dupere said apart from the 63 students “bludging” school, officers spoke to a further 100 wandering streets during school hours.

“Several of the 63 were roused from their beds and taken to school,” Sgt Dupere said. Police copped “a bit of stick” from some students, but many were simply shocked, he said.

“They’d never had a police officer turn up at their house and drag them out of bed and take them to school,” he said.