Sierra Leone police enlist youth volunteers as young as 10 years
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Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is blighted by rampant criminality, would be divided into 860 zones with 10 youth volunteers in each.
He said they would help the police to tackle endemic problems like anti-social behaviour and armed robbery.
Sierra Leone is still recovering from a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002, in which child soldiers fought.
The BBC’s Lansana Fofana, in Freetown, says hundreds of boys have already agreed to sign up.
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