3 months ago, we told you about the kids curfew That Eastern Division South Commander Chester Williams had set up. He's trying to curb the number of children out on the streets, who the gang figures could recruit to commit murders. Well, in the months after the pushback from the child advocacy organizations, a modified version was put into effect. Today, he said that it has been quietly working:
ACP Chester Williams, OC, Eastern Division South
"The curfew is still ongoing. We picked up I think last week we picked up about 4 minors off the streets. The parents were again issued with the warning letters. We have not arrived at a stage where we can arrest and charge a parent, because those children that we have we picked up and the parent warned, they have not been dealt with before. So, we have not had a situation where we picked up a child twice, because you know that we normally give the warning in the first instance and if the child is being picked up again, then we take legal action against the parent. So we have not had a situation where we picked up a child twice, where we would have to charge the parent because of a second infraction. But it is working. We continue to see the number of children on the streets minimizing and we want to keep it that way. We also continue to do our patrols at the various gang bases on a daily basis to make sure that no young persons are hanging out there with them and that's the reason why you are seeing that the perpetrators now of these crimes are no longer children as there were before."
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