The Trelawny police are on the cusp of beginning a youth membership in a secondary faculty within the parish as a pilot venture in a transfer to counteract the recruitment of gangs in instructional establishments there.
Talking at a joint police-military church service at Bounty Corridor New Testomony Church of God on Sunday, commander for the Trelawny Police Division, Superintendent Winston Milton, stated the police are actually working with the stakeholders within the faculty to get the pilot venture on the best way.
Members of the Jamaica Defence Power (JDF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Power (JCF) pose for {a photograph} foll0wing a church service in Trelawny on Sunday.
Milton stated final 12 months the police efficiently disrupted 4 of the 5 gangs that operated throughout the parish.
He argued that gang membership might once more enhance if the police don’t nullify the recruitment of scholars to their ranks.
Milton stated the pilot police youth membership venture will probably be used as a template to determine different such golf equipment in excessive faculties throughout the parish.
Milton instructed worshippers that aside from aggravated assault, there have been reductions in all different varieties of main crimes in Trelawny final 12 months.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Glenford Miller and a few retired law enforcement officials had been additionally in attendance on the church service.
