Philipsburg:--- The government of country St. Maarten is already looking into building its own juvenile delinquency facility announced Minister of Justice Roland Duncan. The Minister said during the past week he has been visiting all the departments in the justice chain. He said that which is in place for justice is inadequate and St. Maarten is starting from scratch. He said what he found thus far is worst than they thought since there has been understaffing in every area, while there are a number of sections that is not organized or structurally set up. He said while these sections are mapped out on paper the Dutch is already reminding St. Maarten that their first report is due in December.Minister Duncan said while intention of the coalition government is to place their emphasis on youth, on the program there is a juvenile delinquency facility that has to be built. Duncan said the justice Ministry is rather big with several departments attached to it thus he is putting in place a cohesion plan which he will be presenting to the council of Ministers.
St. Maarten he said will have a solicitor general who would be working along with the Attorney General. The solicitor general he said will be stationed on St. Maarten and candidates are being interviewed currently to take up the position.
As for the police department he said the intention is to have police substations in all the districts while some enhancement will be done with the police sub-station in Simpson Bay. The idea the Minister said is to have more police presence in all of the districts so that the people can begin to build a relationship with law enforcement.
