PROPOSED CURFEW
Papua New Guinea (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PORT MORESBY, July 16. A midnight-to-dawn curfew and the gaoling of 12-year-old juvenile offenders and their parents were proposed in Port Moresby today as part of a plan against Papua New Guinea’s soaring crime rate.
The measures, put forward by the Police Minister (Mr Pita Lus) are to be presented to Cabinet as the answer to the roaming bands of juveniles whom police blame for 70 per cent of breaking and entering offences in urban areas.
According to the latest police figures, the juvenile crime rate has risen by a steady 30 per cent each year since the late sixties.
Mr Lus, who has criticised magistrates for leniency in sentencing young offenders, said today that the sympathetic approach adopted by courts had damaged police morale. “What’s the point of police catching offenders if the courts merely deliver a lecture on being naughty boys, pat them on the head and let them go?” he said. Ski-infi again Israel intends to re-open its ski slope on Mount Hermon for the winter season. The region round the peak, occupied from Syria in 1967, has been the scene of heavy fighting.—Jerusalem.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33588, 17 July 1974, Page 13
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