He means well. He points out to children that they're at the top of aslippery slope. However, his instinct is that the feeling of terrorfades the next time they're in the shopping centre and temptation is ondisplay.
His police area has specialists to deal with youth crime. "Uniformedofficers make the arrest, arrange the adult, conduct the enquiries, dothe interview, put together the file and conduct the follow-upenquiries".
But, he says, youth-crime co-ordinators also perform a valuable serviceby doing co-ordinating and follow-up work and addressing the root causesof offending behaviour. "They have been on specialist courses and theirknowledge of child psychology makes a mockery of my own ham-fistedattempts to set them on the straight and narrow." Could this besarcasm?
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