Says R.C.M.P. Constable

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By

BILL MAVOR
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PROGRAM of stopping de-

linguency before it begins is

paying dividends for a village
and a detachment of the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police.

Complaints concerning youths at
Sidney have been cut sharply by
utilization of the police program and
equipment by detachment head,
Constable George F. Kent.

Children in villages are as subject
to delinquency trends as their big
city cousins. Two crimes and a simple
comment pointed up the fact for
Constable Kent.

The crimes were committed at
Campbell River; the comment was
made by youths at Sidney.

Stationed at the village on northern
Vancouver Island a hunch and a

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rumor helped solve the crimes there.

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Constable Kent

A hunch paid off when a depart-
ment store popular item, a wind-
breaker with a fur collar, proved too
outstanding for a fashion wise 16-
year-old boy.

Twelve hours after he and an
accomplice had committed a breaking
and entry of a cafe the windbreaker
led to their arrest. The night robbery
of a cafe resulted in small stuff dis-
appearing, cigarettes and candy. The
proprietor, who discovered the crime
on opening in the morning, could not
trace any suspicious customers.

Every question was answered with-
out providing any clue until the in-
vestigating officer, Constable Kent,
found in talking with the night con-
stable that a youth with a wind-
breaker had been seen in the village.
For no particular reason the wind-
breaker had caught the constable’s
eye and with no more reason raised a

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hunch within the investigating con-
stable.

Patrolling the village a few minutes
later a youth answering the descrip-
tion given by the night duty con-
stable was spotted and invited into
the patrol car.

Amiable, apparently without fear,
he offered cigarettes from a fresh
pack in his breast pocket. His move-
ments betrayed him, however, and
pushed into sight another pack from
a second pocket.

Mixed-Up Kid

A few questions later he was a mixed
up kid standing before his mother.
Asked about the robbery, the youth
confessed and implicated a friend.
They placed a surprise ending with
their admissions, disclosing they had
been in the cafe three times and
that they had been playing the estab-
lishment’s pin ball machine the morn-
ing of their arrests.

Rumors trapped a Boy Scout leader
after he had been on an 11 months’
crime wave of breaking and entering
homes in the same village.

Twenty homes had been entered,
each when the occupants had been

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