A group of 130 police cadets is giving a helping hand to 20 charitable institutes this week in a scheme aimed at helping the institutions while enabling the cadets to get closer to the community which they would be asked to protect.

Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici, who visited eight of the cadets as they carried out maintenance at Jesus of Nazareth Institute this morning, said the work by these cadets also made the institutions feel less vulnerable to crime.

Dr Mifsud Bonnici said that policemen increasingly needed brain more than brawn as fighting crime became more complex. Indeed, inmates at the prisons increasingly had a higher educational standard than before. Officers, therefore, needed to be well aware of the problems which society faced.

He said the government was continuing to strengthen the police force and policemen were receiving better training than ever before, particularly in the Police Academy. Legislation to deter crime was also being improved, the latest legislation before parliament including measures to fight paedophilia and sexual abuse on the Internet.

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