Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he has pro­posed the in­tro­duc­tion of a po­lice cadet pro­gramme in sec­ondary schools, which he hopes will ad­dress school in­dis­ci­pline while pro­vid­ing a pos­i­tive out­let for young peo­ple.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter vol­un­teer­ing to speak with chil­dren at the Laven­tille Open Bible Church in Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, on Sat­ur­day, Gue­var­ro said he sub­mit­ted the pro­pos­al to the Gov­ern­ment as part of a wider suite of com­mu­ni­ty-based crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tives.

He said the pro­gramme would be sim­i­lar to the Cadet Force cur­rent­ly op­er­at­ed by the T&T De­fence Force, but with a spe­cif­ic fo­cus on “lead­er­ship, polic­ing, and law-en­force­ment type skills.”