Minister for Children and Youth Justice and Minister for Multicultural Affairs The Honourable Leanne Linard
Caloundra locals can have their say on plans to repurpose the existing Caloundra watchhouse to a new, short-term youth remand centre.
Youth Justice Minister Leanne Linard said plans to repurpose the building, which is an operational watchhouse and can currently hold adults and young people who have been arrested by police, needed to be part of a community discussion to ensure everyone knew the facts.
“Since it was open, the watchhouse has been able to accommodate both adults and young people who have come to the attention of police,” Ms Linard said.
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Mackay police have reported a five per cent drop in unlawful entry offences and an eight per cent drop in unlawful use of motor vehicle offences, coinciding with the launch of a youth crime crackdown.
Co-responder teams of police and youth justice workers have engaged with almost 170 young people since they began patrolling the streets of Mackay this year in a clampdown on youth crime.
The $5.2 million initiative was expanded to Mackay in mid-March, after being introduced in five other locations around the state last year.
Mackay police Superintendent Glen Morris said there had been a reduction in property offences, of which there were higher numbers of juvenile offenders committing those offences, during the current financial year.
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Parents and carers could be required to phone the police on their own children if they reoffend while out on bail under the Palaszczuk Government s youth crackdown. The Courier-Mail can reveal how new laws, to be introduced in parliament today, seek to involve caregivers in helping police crush a crime wave being waged by about 400 hardcore young offenders across the state. More children will be remanded in custody under a youth justice crackdown. They will be able to require caregivers to promise they will be responsible for the child and make sure they don t break curfews and reoffend before they can be granted bail.