Column 532 initiative which protects young people and the victims of crime. Young people who are the victims of crime are out on the streets, not the perpetrators. The scheme is targeted on individual youngsters who are regular offenders. That is different from what the hon. Lady is saying.
Powers already exist for young offenders to be dealt with in the usual way.
The police do not need extra powers to do that. The scheme is linked to constructive activities for young people to divert them from crime, which are as important as the scheme itself. The idea that there is suddenly a blanket approach at 9 or 10 o'clock for a certain age group, which is very difficult to define, as opposed to proposals for specific youngsters, tackles the problem in the wrong way. We agree on the need to deal with individual regular offenders, but we do not accept generalised views of certain areas or estates. If the hon.