Abstract
Individuals of age less than 18 years committing an offence get in touch with police at the very first movement within the Juvenile Justice System throughout the world. Realistic accomplishment of juvenile justice system is achievable only when the implementing agency, like police is fully sentient about the concern law. The study was an endeavor to identify the consciousness level of police officers and officials concerning juvenile justice system ordinance 2000. The police staff working at police station level of three districts named as Peshawar as the capital city, Mardan and Charsadda from Khyber Pakhtonkhwa province of Pakistan were selected under quantitative research design. Total number of respondents was 420 which were carefully chosen randomly with the help of purposive sampling techniques from all the police stations of the target area. A pre-designed constructed interview schedule was used to collect the data. It was noted that high ranked police officers and police officials have the greater awareness level and knowledge about investigation process in juvenile justice system. It was suggested that during investigation process of juveniles, the high ranked police officers must involve due to high level of knowledge and awareness about the concern law.

Saif Abbasi, Anas Baryal , Kiran Seenen. (2015) Investigation of Juveniles by Police Under Juvenile Justice System A Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Regarding Knowledge of JJSO-2000, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-07, Issue-1.
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