Sultan Khan
Sultan Khan talks about his police work

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The Mosque is mainly… If you’ve got anti-social behaviour and the person is young, where the police have got limited power, first we go to the parents and ask them, "Is this a problem?" And they deal with it, the parents. And then, if we think the same problem is there then there’s a process of education. Then we ask the Mosque to - when the children come around - to educate them, give them education. And that way we handle it and do a good job. So we had previously a couple of occasions, we have a problem with a youth here, so we went to the Mosque and ask them. That’s why we are now tackling the drugs here in the area - we work through the Mosque to educate them.

As a team we can get straight at this problem and make a safe community. Because it will affect everybody. It will not see the colour, whether you are white or Asian or black or any colour. It will affect everybody and, unless we tackle that and tackle through the community here… That way we can solve the problem because… Firstly to identify the problem and, once we’ve identified the problem, then you’ve got solutions for it, and use all the tools which you’ve got so that you can solve the problem.