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.
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.