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Current Term (2024 to 2027)

In the current term (from 2024), the NCPR is studying the following areas:

  • Preventing first-time offending amongst youths;
  • Preventing gang affiliation amongst youths;
  • Strengthening community support for elderly ex-offenders; and
  • Strengthening support for families impacted by incarceration.

NCPR 3rd Term Members NCPR Members

The NCPR made the following recommendations:

Focus Area 1: Preventing First-Time Offending Amongst Youth

  • Empowering youths to lead crime prevention through Youth Community Outreach Patrol
  • Enhancing Youth GO! with smarter tools and stronger family support

 

Focus Area 2: Preventing Gang Affiliation Amongst Youths

  • Strengthening teachers’ and social workers’ ability to recognise early signs of gang association for intervention
  • Enhancing programmes to help youths at risk of gang involvement
  • Implementing the Gang Renunciation Programme in Singapore Boys’ Home
  • Leveraging Desistor Network (DN) to provide mentoring support for youth offenders

 

Focus Area 3: Strengthening Community Support for Elderly Offenders and Ex-offenders

  • Collaborating with community partners to enhance social support for elderly offenders and encourage active ageing
  • Enhancing employment support for elderly ex-offenders
  • Strengthening continuity of care for elderly ex-offenders through enhancing capabilities of staff, community partners and volunteers

 

Focus Area 4: Strengthening Support for Families Impacted by Incarceration

  • Strengthening inter-agency case coordination to facilitate timely intervention for vulnerable families and enable more seamless reintegration outcomes for ex-offenders
  • Enhancing domestic violence (DV) interventions for offenders
  • Facilitating family contact with offenders 
  • Enhancing family interventions

 

The recommendations (2024-2027) were presented at the Community Action for the Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders (CARE) Network Summit 2026.