CHILDREN are to be taught the dangers of fire in a police initiative to cut arson attacks in Stockton.
The Arson Reduction Group, formed by the police-backed Safer Stockton Partnership, has launched the anti-arson initiative.
It will teach pupils in the top year of junior school, aged ten or 11, what to do if fire breaks out.
They will also be asked to design a poster with an anti-arson slogan which will go on public display with prizes presented to the winners on November 24.
PC Jeff Vowels, school liaison officer for Stockton, said: "Most arson attacks are committed by young people. We are hoping by educating these children at a young age we can nip the problem in the bud before they are exposed to involvement in this type of crime which can have such disastrous consequences."
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