Conference seeks to tackle gang culture
Madeleine Davies reports loud
applause for the police officer who said that faith mattered
A SENIOR Metropolitan police officer told a conference on gangs
on Saturday of the "desperate need for prayer" in a society
"addicted to violence".
Chief Superintendent John Sutherland, currently serving in the
borough of Southwark, told the conference "Tackling Britain's Gang
Culture", organised by the urban youth charity XLP, that domestic
violence was "the single greatest cause of harm in society", and
that the absence of good fathers was a "critical issue". The
stories of sexual ...
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