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Those two guys over there are buddies of a student who got stabbed over the weekend. Maybe they'll drop by for a quiet word later, Const. Scott Wiley says as he leans nonchalantly against the wall in St. John's High School.
Wiley has also been told that somebody who heard from somebody about who might have been involved in some criminal acts over the weekend may seek him out.
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"The strength of the North End program is to build relationships with the kids," Wiley said. "It works because the kids talk to us."
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He's Wiley to the kids, not Const. Wiley, or constable, or Scott; just Wiley. It took a little while at first to learn this showed the kids liked him, he recalled.
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Grade 12 student Dustin Merasty dropped into Wiley's office. He's one of Wiley's hockey players, an 18-year-old young adult who's raising a younger sibling and hopes to be an RCMP officer or firefighter.
"(Wiley is) easy to talk to. It keeps people in order," Merasty said. "Last year or so, there haven't been any fights in the school. The school has changed, respectful-wise," Merasty said.
"He's straight up."
Merasty remembered Wiley giving some guys a couple of warnings, stern and clear: "They've been clean since."
At last year's winter dance, Merasty said, there was talk that a guy was coming to the school to cause problems. Word got to Wiley, who got to the guy first.
It's always nice to have a good-news story every once in a while. I hope this program is expanded into the rest of the city some day.
CKA Uber 
