 Regional law enforcement is encouraging communities to establish neighborhood watch programs and parents to be more involved in their children's lives to reduce the potential for deviant behavior. This call to action came out of a regional community policing panel discussion hosted by the Royal St. Lucia Police Force from the GIS Studios, featuring virtual presentations from the Bailey's Police Department and Acting Inspector Roland Kobler of the Royal Barbados Police Force. Since in alarming rates of violence in schools across the Caribbean, Acting Inspector Kobler explained the risk factors associated with deviant behavior among school-aged children. He suggests methods that parents can utilize in dealing with their children to avoid such outcomes. These include modeling the appropriate behavior each and every time. As I said before, now say again, children mimic what they see. Of course, observe children carefully for troubling behaviors. Once you pay attention to your children, then you will see their deviation from that expected behavior, and then you'll be able to identify troubling behaviors and try to give early interventions into situations as they arise. Of course, take an active role in your children's education, encourage them to go to school and learn, encourage them to desist from getting involved in violence or any activity that will disrupt them from getting a strong education. To know your children's friends and family is very important that we know as parents who our children are spending time with, it places the goal and the company that they are keeping. And of course, you need to monitor and supervise our children is the point that we monitor them and have an understanding of their internet use. Of course, you need to check their bedroom because there may be times where they struggle with issues of bullying, but because we're not monitoring and supervising, they may take a little weapon from home and then hence violence at school will occur. And of course, you also have to look for scenes of other paraphernalia such as the use of illegal drugs and being constantly monitoring and supervising our children will play a critical role in reducing some of the liquid and violence behavior experienced in our schools. At the community level, Inspector Zenubio Cook from the Belize Police Department illustrated the significance of a neighborhood watch group to deter crime and violence, enhance the quality of life and improve relations among neighbors. Firstly, we want to recruit and organize as many neighbors as possible. We want to walk into the neighbors, into the neighborhood and organize. Let us schedule a meeting very, very important. I also discuss community concern and develop an action plan. And again, whenever we have our meeting, those who are not privy to attend the meeting, they can actually get the information by way of being a part of the WhatsApp group and other means of communication. But definitely it is very important to share this information. That was Inspector Zenubio Cook of the Belize Police Department. The regional community policing panel discussion is airing throughout this month for an NTN and can also be viewed on the Government of St. Lucia Facebook page and YouTube channel.