The Selangor education department has received 1,219 complaints of misconduct involving students so far this year, with 265 reports involving bullying.
Selangor deputy police chief Zaini Abu Hassan said probe papers were opened in 41 cases, with 32 of them related to violent crime and the rest linked to bullying.
Nonetheless, Zaini said schools in Selangor remained largely safe as the number of misconduct reports was just a fraction of the total number of students in the state.
“We have about 997,000 students in Selangor. It’s not easy for 6,000 teachers to manage them.
“So the ratio of misconduct complaints to the total student population is only 0.0012%. This shows that security in Selangor schools is still very good.
“There are only one or two serious cases that have created a very bad perception,…