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OSCE Mission to Skopje launches project to help reduce juvenile delinquency
SKOPJE 23 January 2008
SKOPJE, 23 January 2008 - Reducing juvenile delinquency in the multi-ethnic Skopje municipality of Gazi Baba is the aim of a new Youth Centre that opened today.
Supported by the Interior Ministry and part of a project of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, the Centre will help young people learn ways to stop violence, drug abuse, human trafficking, inter-ethnic and community safety issues. Interior Ministry experts, teachers and psychologists will lead the instruction.
"It is important that the initiative came from the grass-roots level," said Raul Correa Cruz, of the OSCE Mission's Police Development Unit. "Members of the Gazi Baba Citizen Advisory Group, which is made up of local police, school principals, parents and municipality representatives, were concerned by the violent behaviour of some students in this multi-ethnic municipality. The first results are already visible: police and municipal officials are working together to make sure there is a safer community."
Risto Jovanovski, the Interior Ministry's Juvenile Delinquency Inspector, said: "The project was designed to help reduce violence among young people and ensure closer ties with the local police."
Supported by the Interior Ministry and part of a project of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, the Centre will help young people learn ways to stop violence, drug abuse, human trafficking, inter-ethnic and community safety issues. Interior Ministry experts, teachers and psychologists will lead the instruction.
"It is important that the initiative came from the grass-roots level," said Raul Correa Cruz, of the OSCE Mission's Police Development Unit. "Members of the Gazi Baba Citizen Advisory Group, which is made up of local police, school principals, parents and municipality representatives, were concerned by the violent behaviour of some students in this multi-ethnic municipality. The first results are already visible: police and municipal officials are working together to make sure there is a safer community."
Risto Jovanovski, the Interior Ministry's Juvenile Delinquency Inspector, said: "The project was designed to help reduce violence among young people and ensure closer ties with the local police."