From yesterdays DR1 News:
Chicks for toy guns
Dominican police chief Bernardo Santana Paez has announced a plan to give baby chicks to kids who turn in their toy weapons. According to the chief, the idea is to involve the children of six of the capital's poorest neighborhoods and "teach them the value of life". The plan is to extend the program to other areas of the country over time. The whole program falls under the aegis of the Democratic Security Plan and is a new example of preventative police work. The first barrios taking part in the program will be Los Guandules, La Cienaga, Guachupita, 27 de Febrero, Gualey and Ensanche Espaillat. Santana Paez told reporters from El Caribe that the program is based on a similar one in Colombia and other countries.
My questions are: would you like to see the Police do more of this type of community preventative work or do you feel it should be done by other organisations while the police concentrate on crime interdiction and prevention?
Where should teaching on 'the value of life' come from? Home, school, community groups, Church, elsewhere?
Was it a PR stunt because Police Chief is having a tough time right now?
Would you have given something different from chicks? If so, what and why?
I hope this is the correct Forum. If you move it, El Tigre, please not to Government...........
Chicks for toy guns
Dominican police chief Bernardo Santana Paez has announced a plan to give baby chicks to kids who turn in their toy weapons. According to the chief, the idea is to involve the children of six of the capital's poorest neighborhoods and "teach them the value of life". The plan is to extend the program to other areas of the country over time. The whole program falls under the aegis of the Democratic Security Plan and is a new example of preventative police work. The first barrios taking part in the program will be Los Guandules, La Cienaga, Guachupita, 27 de Febrero, Gualey and Ensanche Espaillat. Santana Paez told reporters from El Caribe that the program is based on a similar one in Colombia and other countries.
My questions are: would you like to see the Police do more of this type of community preventative work or do you feel it should be done by other organisations while the police concentrate on crime interdiction and prevention?
Where should teaching on 'the value of life' come from? Home, school, community groups, Church, elsewhere?
Was it a PR stunt because Police Chief is having a tough time right now?
Would you have given something different from chicks? If so, what and why?
I hope this is the correct Forum. If you move it, El Tigre, please not to Government...........