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400 teen troublemakers behind QLD’s youth crime wave

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There are around 400 teen troublemakers responsible for about half of the youth crimes gripping Queensland.

Police commissioner Katarina Carroll admitted the teen crime wave was being seen across the country.

She said the force was “relentless” in their pursuit to turn it around.

“Our greatest challenge is this really tough group of young people, that 10 per cent that are committing around 48 per cent of the crime,” she told Scott Emerson.

“That’s about 400 youth across the state, we know these people, we interact with these people all the time.

“They have been the ones that have been relentlessly offending.”

She says it was extraordinarily complex situation.

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