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Edinburgh high school installs vape detectors to tackle 'escalating' problem

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Published date26 March 2024
AuthorKelly-Ann Mills
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
The Royal High School has spent around £1,000 on the machines, which were put in at the beginning of March. They can detect the chemicals in vape mist and will set off an alarm immediately, reports the Mirror

Headteacher Pauline Walker said: "We want to send a message loud and clear.

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"Vaping is not acceptable. We will not permit it. We will not promote it." She said that since the detectors have been activated, there was been "almost zero" activations.

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During a similar trial at St Joseph's RC High School in Horwich, earlier this year, headteacher Tony McCabe said the vape detector alarm buzzed 112 times within the first day of it being installed. He recalled his horror when a student passed out after sharing a vape with someone else before school.

"Speaking to headteachers up and down the country, I don't think there is one school where young children are not addicted to vapes," he told This Morning. "We cannot police it, but we must...

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