Youths Arrested for Crime

This may interest you. Some facts from the SPF regarding youths commiting crimes. As an educationist it is good to know some of the trends that is happening in our Youths today. Here is the statistics...

Youths Arrested for Crime
A total of 1,582 youths were arrested for crime in the first half of 2006, as compared to 2,412 in the same period in 2005. They accounted for 18% of the total persons arrested, a decrease from the 22% in Jan-Jun 2005, but still higher than the proportion of the youth population in Singapore (15%).

While the three most common offences for which youths were arrested continued to be shop theft, other theft and rioting, each of these offences saw significantly fewer youth arrests in the first half of this year. Youth arrested for shop theft fell from 719 to 378 persons, while youths arrested for other theft fell from 441 to 221 persons. The number of youth arrested for rioting also fell from 212 to 191 persons.

If you are into the area of discipline, here is a programme by the SPF and Prisons service where you can sign up your students with.

Streetwise Programme

The Secret Societies Branch (SSB) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) works with the Prisons Department to arrange for visits to Changi and Changi Women's Prison / DRC for wayward youths. The voluntary programme is aimed at giving these youths a glimpse at life behind bars and an opportunity to change and disassociate from their gang member friends.