Lives at risk' by keeping youths in cells overnight
Lives at risk' by keeping youths in cells overnight
- Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft said the new ministry must come up with other options.
"We play with fire - this is an academic debate we're having, [but] lives are at risk," he said.
"We know that there are psychological risks - we know one boy took his life in a police cell back in 1996 or '97.
- Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft said the new ministry must come up with other options.
"We play with fire - this is an academic debate we're having, [but] lives are at risk," he said.
"We know that there are psychological risks - we know one boy took his life in a police cell back in 1996 or '97.