Blue Light dances help combat crime
PA Wellington Crime has become a young person’s pastime and police attention must be focused on the problem, says the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Bryan Gibson. “More than half the offenders we detect are aged between 14 and 20—and that
is very, very alarming,” Mr Gibson has said at the first annual conference for organisers of police-run Blue Light dances. “It’s a sau commentary on our society now that you cannot run dances without the risk of hoodlums gatecrashing—people bringing drugs and booze.” Mr Gibson said the Blue Light dances for young people aged 12 to 18, had proved that dances could run safely in an atmosphere where the police were seen as human. Blue Light dances are run in 23 centres throughout New Zealand, and an increase is planned for next year.
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