When girls of the same age group are put into the equation, the figure falls to one in 20.The statistics released today show a ‘significant and growing’ level of criminality among young people in the Island.
Most prominent among the crimes typical of the age group are joyriding and vandalism.Police chief Graham Power said that the force’s detection rate, which placed it among the best in Britain, showed that officers were having good success in catching adult offenders.
However, dealing with young people was, as Kathie Bull indicated in her report on provision for children with emotional and behavioural problems, far more difficult.
