{"id":2339,"date":"2010-04-23T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/04\/adolescents-involvement-in-street-crime-in-terengganu-worrying\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:36:58","slug":"adolescents-involvement-in-street-crime-in-terengganu-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/adolescents-involvement-in-street-crime-in-terengganu-worrying\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescents&#8217; Involvement In Street Crime In Terengganu Worrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA TERENGGANU, April 23 (Bernama) &#8212; The involvement of adolescents  in thuggery and street crime in the state has reached a serious level  with 72 arrests recorded last year.<\/p>\n<p> Terengganu police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said several of them  were arrested while performing daring stunts on their motorcycles which  not only endangered their own lives but also that of other road users.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The youths and adolescents&#8217; involvement in crime is worrying and this  problem must be tackled through a concerted effort to protect their own  future and public safety,&#8221; he said after officiating at the seven-a-side  football tournament for the Terengganu Police Chief Trophy, here, on  Friday.<\/p>\n<p> Mohd Shukri said throughout last year, 365 crime cases or 9.36 per cent  involved adolescents and the crime included using force, robbery,  motorcycle thefts, rape, extortion, cheating, fights and prostitution,  besides murder.<\/p>\n<p> He said during the same period, youths and adolescents&#8217; involvement in  drug abuse also increased, with 141 arrests made, while the cause  factors included undesirable surroundings and bad influence of peers.<\/p>\n<p> On the football tournament which involved 75 teams, Mohd Shukri said it  was one of the crime-prevention activities organised by the state  police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA TERENGGANU, April 23 (Bernama) &#8212; The involvement of adolescents in thuggery and street crime in the state has reached a serious level with 72 arrests recorded last year. Terengganu police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said several of them were arrested while performing daring stunts on their motorcycles which not only endangered their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}