The Police Commissioner has warned tougher youth crime laws will only yield results if the courts do their job. The Crisafulli Government moved to lock in funding for a task force targeting juvenile offenders.
For more, Jackie Quist reports.
New Year's Day in Sherberg.
Yeah, I've got another fella. He's on in one.
House police hunt down a fourteen year old boy coming in. Now you're on arrest, wanted over a break in. He's pulled out of hiding and arrested. The work of the state's Youth Crime Task Force now set for a funding boost.
He was a glaring omission that we saw that it wasn't locked in permanently, and today's fifteen point four to five million in funding will ensure that it is locked in for the next four years. I know that we funded it permanently through the Queensland Police Service budget.
The new funding arrangement will account for sixteen permanent full time position. It's just one of a raft of new measures to tackle youth crime. Since the Making Queensland Safer laws passed through Parliament, two hundred and twenty seven utes have been arrested and four hundred and eighty four chargers laid.
We're confident we keep that up and the rest of the system does it, including the courts, that we'll see a change.
Although these laws were only passed three weeks ago, David chris A fully says the early results in the courts have been heartening. He's also now indicated more changes are on the way. Police numbers are being bolstered too. Right now, seven hundred and fifty recruits are in training and another two thousand, two hundred applicants are waiting to join.
We know there's a lot more to be done. We know that crime is still a problem this stay.
But this most degree is another step forward to fixing it. Jordan Quinn, seven News