“Let each student be informed that it will automatically be reflected on the police clearance certificate when such a student will apply for one,” the DCI said on its official Twitter handle.
Among the offences the DCI lists for criminal profiling are armed and violent demonstrations, arson, drugs, cyber-bullying, assault and drunkenness. It will affect students in all institutions of learning.
“This will be a permanent criminal mark that will bar many students from achieving their goals, as no employer of worth will dare employ such characters,” the post reads.
Since they reopened in January, schools have been hit by a wave of violence that has seen a number of students charged in the courts.