by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We saw a girl come out of a night club alone and quite drunk, so we went over to see if we could help in any way. However, within a few seconds she was “latched onto” by two men who, when we got there, were trying to persuade her she wanted to go in a taxi with them....
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
We were patrolling on the Octagon in Union St and a girl asked me to thank one of our ladies who she had talked with for 15 minutes, last month; at the end of which, she no longer wanted to kill the people who had been responsible for the death of her young...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
Twice we were called by police to help with pastoral care of girls in distress; one was suicidal due to the death of her mother when she was only 9 years old. The other was a young mum with 2 children whose partner had just gone off with her best friend. A third girl...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
One of our ladies was talking to a prostitute (let’s call her “D”), who was telling her she’d like to give up prostitution, but she needed the money to feed her drug habit. As they talked, D shared some other sad personal history and our lady asked her if she would...
by diviadmin | Jan 10, 2025 | Street Stories
A couple of months ago I was on duty and unusually for me I found myself really tired and yawning around 3 am, so I was quite pleased when the streets seemed to be quietening down around 3.40 am. At 10 to 4 we decided to point ourselves in the direction of base....
