Insight: Crime Education - Force for change

Nursery World, 13 September 2007

Five-year-olds are not too young to be taught about gangs and gun crime, as Crispin Andrews discovers.

In Liverpool, where last month 11-year-old Rhys Jones was killed in Croxteth as he played football, children as young as five are being given lessons by the local police on the dangers of guns. Kitted out in full bullet-proof armour and carrying their own guns, officers from the Merseyside Police anti-gang and gun Matrix team have been delivering short, role play-based sessions in primary schools, warning children about the dangers of falling into a criminal lifestyle. Figures released by Merseyside Police in May...

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