THE police in ‘D’ Division have taken their community policing to another level by engaging businesses in an effort to secure jobs for young people who are unemployed.Over the past month the division has been able to secure jobs for 23 males, with most of them on attachments from Monday last with a contractor.
The young people will be afforded stipends from the companies to which they are attached and once vacancies are available and the young men are willing to remain with the companies, they will become permanent employees.
Meanwhile, this coming Friday the division will be engaging young people in several communities along the West Coast of Demerara in an effort to secure jobs for them. Those communities will be visited by the police where interactions will be held.
In most cases the young men are exposed to new skills and many of them are either school dropouts or persons who have completed some level of schooling but find it hard to secure jobs.
The initiative is receiving the push directly from Commander Marlon Chapman and his deputy Steven Mansell who are supported by the force headquarters in Georgetown and other ranks of the division.
On Friday, the police in that division are expected to engage a total of 75 young people from some eight communities.
These initiatives are all coming under the division’s C-PETS programme which was launched last year by Commissioner Seelall Persaud and then divisional commander Ian Amsterdam who now serves as the country’s Traffic Chief.(Leroy Smith)