Let police run the youth clubs and witness a brighter future - smh.com.au - By Miranda Devine - January 29, 2006
The perfect antidote to the antisocial behaviour of young men that has driven the Cronulla riots, and much of the law and order problems in this city, was devised about 70 years ago.
Police and Community Youth Clubs, then known as Police Boys' Clubs, were designed to channel the energies and aggressions of wayward boys into boxing, wrestling and other organised physical activities under the stern but kindly eye of local police officers.
The "civilianising" of the PCYC movement, like a lot that ails the police force today, grew out of a controversial recommendation of the police royal commission. Justice James Wood was concerned about police having access to large amounts of cash at the clubs, because of a couple of instances of misappropriation.
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