Hamilton residents are being urged to reinforce to children the idea of not accepting gifts or talking to strangers after one mother reported a close call outside her daughter's school.
The mother alleges her daughter was followed and questioned by a man during her walk to school
Police confirmed they received a report of a child being approached about 8.15am on Friday morning in Fairfield, a spokeswoman said.
A man had allegedly followed an 11-year-old girl in a car in the vicinity of Fairfield Intermediate School on Friday, the mother said, in a social media post to a Hamilton buy and sell page.