Keen about fighting crime in your community? YCPD wants you to join!
YCPD typically holds talks at schools, substance abuse campaigns and sports against crime events amongst other things.
Youth month is upon us thus it is important to know and recognise organisations aimed at the youth. Protea Glen’s South African Police Service (SAPS) Youth Crime Prevention Desk (YCPD) is one such organisation and it is recruiting young people between the ages of 18-35 to join.
YCPD is a formation of young people who are affected by crime in their area and have committed to assisting the police and community to fight crime according to Protea Glen YCPD Public Relations officer, Moses Seaga.
It is a volunteer based structured that arose through collaboration between the Department of Community Safety, SAPS and Community Policing Forums (CPF). “We do not belong to any political party or organisation, we are a subcommittee of the CPF,” said Seaga.
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The structure recognises that young people are a part of the population that is most affected by crime as both victims and perpetrators. “We plan activities and run programs in our community including schools that need help reducing crime especially affecting young people,” Seaga explained.
YCPD typically holds talks at schools, substance abuse campaigns and sports against crime events amongst other things. Protea Glen’s YCPD recently held a sports against crime event at Naledi Sports Complex in which multiple stakeholders such as SANCA (South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), Jozi Ihlomile Health Educators and Old Mutual were present to give the youth information and advice.
The YCPD plans on hosting one such event quarterly and plans on rotating it around Protea Glen according to Seaga. “Another function of the youth desk is to partner with other youth organisations and government departments to make sure all our activities are relevant to the youth,” he said.
Seaga felt that it was important for people to know about the youth desk as it is an organisation for the youth and the people.
“People keep coming to the police station and asking about the youth desk, what it is and what it does so I thought it was important to inform them because the work we do is for young people especially and they don’t know about it,” he concluded.
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