Transcript youth desk - Buccleuch Residents Association

YOUTH DESK
SANDTON SAPS
WHAT IS YOUTH DESK
• Youth Desk is a structure established by the
SAPS and Dept of Community Safety to bring
young people together from organisations,
churches, schools and the general public
AGE ?
18
to
35
AIM
• The aim is to improve co-operation between the
police and youth to fight crime!
• To address causes of crime through projects and
activities TOGETHER!
THE STRUCTURE
• It is a sub-Division of the station’s Community
Policing Forum
• It is a platform for providing developmental
training of youth
THE YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION DESK
• Works with Sandton SAPS, Sandton CPF,
Department of Community Safety and Municipal
Governments to identify youth safety challenges,
and to develop and implement relevant projects
to address these challenges.
• These projects are guided by the youth, and are
specific to the community’s needs
PROGRAMMES :
• Education and skills
development
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Unemployment
• Peer pressure
• Lack of role models
• Child led homes
• Crime
• Poor/bad role models
• Teen pregnancies
• Gangsterism
• Materialism
• Poverty
CONTINUED
• Homeless y0uth
• Needs to better basic living
conditions
WHAT WILL YOUTH BENEFIT FROM JOINING
YOUTH DESK
• Work experience.
• Meet people you might not ordinary meet.
• Good for your cv especially for further
education.
• Gives you a position within the community .
• Gives you a sence of pride, feeling needed and
valued.
• Strengthen communities.
• Be part of the community policing forum.
HOW DO I JOIN?
• A short CV, copy of your ID and proof of
residence.
• Contact your SAPS Youth Desk Co-ordinator
▫ Sgt Segoa
Sandton SAPS
011 722 4279
082 644 1619
[email protected]