The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that 55 interventions have been made since it launched the Cops and Faith Community Network (CFCN) over a year ago to deal with youth who come into conflict with the law for the first time, by engaging parents/guardians, police and religious leaders.
The interventions involved 31 female and 24 male juveniles between the ages of 10 and 16 years that were detained for offences including assault, assault causing bodily harm, throwing missiles, simple larceny, wandering, use of indecent language, abusive language and threatening behaviour.
“In all cases the youths were counselled by the religious leaders and following the involvement of
