INTRODUCTION

We created this blog to increase awareness of the fact that 'young people’s opinions can affect local policing.' The police want to ‘empower young people to come forward and tell the police of the issues they face’. We want to show the effort the police and the government are making to reduce youth crime by improving the lives of young people. Hopefully this will help result in a better relationship between young people & the police.We also want to raise awareness of the reasons why young people turn to crime. Perhaps if we know what causes youths to turn to crime, this information can help parents, teachers, other adults to prevent young people from resorting to crime.

Sunday 31 October 2010

Our Interview


Hello,

We have done our interview with 2 Police Officers from Kilburn Police Station. We interviewed Constable Michaeledes and Constable Abbott. We asked them about their experience with youth crime and what they think causes youth crime. Surprisingly, both officers had slightly different views on what they think causes young people to turn to crime.
Constable Michaeledes thought that youth crime occurs for a number of reasons some of these factors are, for example: very unhappy home life, exclusion was one of the main factors and truancy was another main factor, because crimes tend to take place when youths are not in education. Also, depravation, for example, homelessness or a lack of money tends also to be a risk factor in youths committing crime.

On the other hand, Constable Abbott thought that youth crime occurs down to boredom, and that teenagers are not given any sort of means to be active and facilities to do other things, they tend to end up on the streets in gangs. He thought it also relates to the fact of peer pressure as well. The youths tend to end up involved in crime because they’re in a group and peer pressure obviously affects that.

Both officers thought that young people should be more engaged and co-operative with the police because, if they come forward and tell the police the issues young people face, there is more of a chance for the police to understand what they need and how to deal with it.
They told us that in the Borough of Brent they have a scheme called the 'YES' Programme- which stands for Youth Engagement Scheme. This basically is where we have for example different units from the Metropolitan Police Service, who come and read presentations to young people. They talk to youths about stop and search and, give the basic rights as to when they are stopped and searched- so they are well informed if they are.

The Police Officers said that the Police are trying very hard to make young and old people feel more safer when going out on the streets. they have said that there are many schemes involving parents and young people to help reduce crime levels.

The interview with the Police Officers gave us plenty of information which we didn't know before. They were very helpful and we appreciate it a lot. Thank you very much to both police officers.

If you want to see part of the interview visit this link.

The Young Crime Team
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