Officials Launch Barbados Crime Awareness Month With Calls to Prevent Youth Crime
Barbados Crime Awareness Month began with calls to modernise community policing and prevent youth crime. Follow-up school outreach has urged students to respect authority and avoid conflict.
4 reports from 2 outlets · First reported Sun, Nov 1
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UpdatedCrime Awareness Month was launched November 1 at a prayer breakfast in Golden Square Freedom Park, Bridgetown.
CBC Barbados +2Lashley said community policing will be modernised as part of Barbados’ wider crime-fighting and prevention plan.
CBC BarbadosOfficials called for coordinated support to keep young people away from peer pressure, violence and crime.
CBC Barbados +2Willoughby said a recent prison visit raised concern about the number of young people held at Dodds.
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