Youngsters talk crime - Education

Sponsored by

Youngsters talk crime

Published on 21/01/2013 09:00

Three groups of schoolchildren made presentations on crime and community safety issues to Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Olly Martins on Thursday.

Mr Martins attended an event at Biddenham International School in Bedford to hear presentations from pupils aged 15 regarding their views on various different types of crime.

After the presentation the Commissioner answered their questions on his views about crime reduction and putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system.

Mr Martins said: “This proves that you are never too old to go back to school and learn something. It was a thought-provoking afternoon hearing what young people feel about crime and its impact on communities.

“Young people are the citizens of the future and it’s important that we take their thoughts seriously. This information will help us to ensure the delivery of inclusive policing services that take into account the needs of young people.

“Becoming more involved with people of a younger age is important, it will help us to achieve a safer Bedfordshire both now and in the years to come and the best way I can do that is to talk with them and to listen to what they have to say.”

The pupils gave the Commissioner presentations on various topics including knife crime and the effects of street lights on crime.

The event is part of their citizenship studies.

Headteacher David Bailey said: “We were delighted that Olly could spare the time to come and spend some time with our students.

“I know that they really enjoyed meeting him and having the opportunity to talk with him and ask questions about the policing in the county.

“I know that they also took full advantage of giving him their views too.”

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
Youngsters talk crime

Top stories

News