A new youth crime taskforce will tackle the ongoing crime epidemic in Queensland.

The taskforce, one of the initiatives of the Queensland government, will investigate the root of the problem for repeat offenders and young criminals, as well as more high-visibility police patrols, bail checks and more officers speaking to kids on the streets.

Senior 9News reporter Tim Arvier told Ray Hadley around 30 officers will be assigned to the squad.

“I’m told about half of those officers will come from the flying squad and they will be essentially like a youth crime flying squad,” he said.

“[They’ll be] going around the state, targeting youth crime hotspots, especially going up to Townsville and Cairns.”

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Acting Assistant Commissioner George Marchesini has been named as the commander of the youth crime taskforce.

He admitted to Neil Breen there was a lot more work to be done in the space, and frontline police were frustrated after recent tragedies.

“Quite often what you are going to find is that a lot of these children that are released, if they are going back into that same environment, we are not going to succeed,” he said.

“That circuit breaker in terms of how we actually remove them from that environment that’s going to be critical, otherwise we are going to keep repeating the same things with the programs that are being rolled out.”

He said often the programs also aim to support parents involved too.

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