Head of the TTPS Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, act­ing Supt Michelle Row­ley-Pow­der, is again call­ing on par­ents to prop­er­ly su­per­vise their chil­dren and dis­cour­age crim­i­nal be­hav­iour.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia’s ques­tions through the TTPS Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit yes­ter­day, Row­ley-Pow­der re­ferred to an in­ci­dent where a school­boy was caught on video steal­ing mon­ey from the cash box of a D’Abadie dou­bles ven­dor ear­li­er this week.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the dou­bles ven­dor con­tact­ed the pri­ma­ry school and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent, which led to the boy’s par­ents be­ing called in.

The boy was then made to re­turn the mon­ey and apol­o­gise to the ven­dor.

Row­ley-Pow­der said she was li­ais­ing with of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion North to “mon­i­tor” the sit­u­a­tion but not­ed that prop­er su­per­vi­sion re­mained an is­sue.

“Sec­tion 4 of the Chil­dren’s Act speaks about the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of adults to­wards care of a child and it en­com­pass­es the is­sue of child ne­glect. Par­ents have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to mon­i­tor the move­ments their chil­dren,” she said.

—Shane Su­perville