Dahi wants study on youth crime

Dubai: Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai Police Chief, has called for a forum to study, analyse and make recommendations on juvenile crime.

He spoke after the arrest of a gang of four young men in Sharjah, calling themselves the ‘Rashid Death Gang' who committed robbery and murder.

Lt Gen Dahi said the reasons behind juvenile crimes lay with families. On a radio programme, he said broken families may result in generations of delinquents and he blamed the personality of some fathers, who may take many wives or marry women who are not their match.

Their children, who do not receive the social and psychological care they need, may end up victims of juvenile delinquency, he said.