GLASGOW - Fri 23 May 2008
WITNESSES
1. PC Geoff Smith
Campus officer, St Mungo’s academy. Geoff Smith is a full time school police officer, based at St Mungo’s secondary school in Calton, Glasgow, and its eight feeder primary schools and nurseries.
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2. Rosemary Dickson
Project manager, FARE (Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse). FARE is a community organisation which caters for the needs of one of Glasgow’s most challenged neighbourhoods – and works with children and young people to steer them away from gang conflict and knife use.
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3. & 4. CS John Carnochan & Karyn McCluskey
Head and deputy head, Violence Reduction Unit. The VRU, established by Strathclyde police, targets violent behaviour and knife crime in Glasgow, and across Scotland.
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5. & 6. & 7.
Ian Bell, Gary Wilson & Liam McEmerson
Ian Bell is a senior manager with Includem – a Glasgow organisation who mentor and re-engage youth offenders and other vulnerable young people. Gary and Liam, who are both aged 20, faced serious challenges during their teens, including serious offending and violence – and were both referred to Includem for help.
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8. Scott Breslin
Scott, 23, was left paralysed from the neck down for life after he was stabbed in the neck during an unprovoked attack when he was 16.
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9. Alex Richardson & Andrew Gilbert
The Gladiator Programme, Glasgow. Gladiator provides play activities and sport for children and young people in Easterhouse, with the aim of shielding them from drugs, territorialism and violence, and boosting their personal development.
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10. David Shaw
David is a counsellor with the Glasgow Council on Alcohol, and runs a programme for offenders with alcohol problems.
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