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Trelawny Police To Launch Youth Club In High School
The Trelawny police are on the cusp of starting a youth club in a secondary school in the parish as a pilot project in a move to counteract the recruitment of gangs in educational institutions there.
Speaking at a joint police-military church service at Bounty Hall New Testament Church of God on Sunday, commander for the Trelawny Police Division, Superintendent Winston Milton, said the police are now working with the stakeholders in the school to get the pilot project on the way.
Members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) pose for a photograph foll0wing a church service in Trelawny on Sunday.
Milton said last year the police successfully disrupted four of the five gangs that operated across the parish.
He argued that gang membership could again increase if the police do not nullify the recruitment of students to their ranks.
Milton said the pilot police youth club project will be used as a template to establish other such clubs in high schools across the parish.
Milton told worshippers that apart from aggravated assault, there were reductions in all other types of major crimes in Trelawny last year.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Glenford Miller and some retired police officers were also in attendance at the church service.
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