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Chester Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Police
"There are so many children who are out of school that needs to be in school. So I want to see how we can collaborate with them to see how we can get those kids back in school and well as to provide counseling for children who have become victims of gun violence, either directly or indirectly. Directly, in the sense that they themselves has been shot or indirectly, in the sense that someone close to them has been shot. Because sometimes these kids are witness to these heinous acts. They do not go through counseling, they grow up with this hate and anger and remained traumatized and they cannot wait to reach a certain age that they themselves can pick up a gun and go and take revenge so we need to see how we can do something to be able to help our young people who have become victims to these sort of incidents and also indirectly in the sense that maybe a crime occurred within their vicinity that they may have witnessed or heard of and that too can create trauma to a child, so we must do what we can to be able to assist them. I will be collaborating with Miss Finnegan and Brother Nuri as well as C.Y.D.P., to see how we can pool our resources together, that we can do more interventions, with a view to see how we can mitigate the amount of hate and anger that is out there on our streets."