Young People, Policing and Human Rights

The NI Policing Board's Human Rights committee asked us to produce at short piece for their Thematic Inquiry into Children and Young People. In this film we interviewed 27 young people from North, West and South Belfast, Derry and Portadown and included young people from minority ethnic communities and young people with disabilities. Whilst the experiences and views of policing were overwhelmingly negative, there are some very important positive signs:

All the young people are willing to engage with this issue and most have constructive ideas about how to improve policing

Many are willing to meet police officers and others involved in policing to discuss how things can be improved

Some young people had very positive experiences of policing Westland South Belfast/City Centre and spoke highly of specific community based officers. Much progress can be made through skillful community officers engaging with local young people on a sustained basis

Young people want their communities to be safe and secure as much as (if not more than) others in their communities.

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• PSNI
• Policing
• WIMPS
• Northern Ireland

[samfromportadown]

ROFL: "I think the police is scum"

My ma would have a fit if she heard that. She's a true grammar nazi. "ARE scum not IS scum"

She even got out a pen and changed a sign in a chip shop once while standing in the queue, because an apostrophe in the wrong place annoyed her.

[alabamsc]

i agree, I think the police dont relise whats happen about Ormeau Road there has been loptops, money ,cameras passports and others stole outa homes and shops