Youth curfew: West Kingston residents support police programme to get children off the streets. Do you think this will help to reduce the crime in JA?

Senior Superintendent of Police
 Steve McGregor (left) listens to
residents yesterday as they
protest the death of a detainee in
 the Darling Street Police lock-up
in West Kingston. McGregor later
 announced a programme to get
children under the age of 17

POLICE were last night scheduled to start a nine o'clock curfew for children under 17 years old in the often volatile West Kingston section of the capital as part of a crusade against crime, winning immediate support from residents.

"I endorse the programme, and all the other residents in Rose Town support the programme fully," said Patricia Stanford. Peaches Watson, who lives in Trench Town, agreed. "Residents in Trench Town are all willing to work with the police on this programme," she said.

Both women were among approximately 20 adults from West Kingston communities attending the launch of the programme at Denham Town Police Station yesterday afternoon. "The programme is one of several initiatives that will be implemented in the area, and is part of an effort by the police to return discipline in the area and keep youngsters who are being lured by gangs out of crime," Senior Superintendent Steve McGregor told the residents. more