Innovative ways are always being sought to deter young people away from crime and for the first time my office is now providing funding for pioneering football-related schemes. Sport is a productive and fun way of engaging with those who have been involved in antisocial behaviour or crime, or are at risk of being exploited due […]
commissioning
A street-based youth project that protects vulnerable young people who are at risk of being exploited and lured into criminal activity is successfully helping to turn lives around. For the past four years, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) has continued to fund Devon-based Space Youth Services to run its Assertive Outreach programme. Youth […]
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner has praised police and victim support services after the sentencing of three men who raped teenage girls in Plymouth.Abalzaq Salih, 31, from Plymouth, was sentenced to 19 years in prison after being convicted of two counts of raping a female aged 15 or under.Saif Kahya, aged 32, from […]