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/ 23 April 2004

A chance for troubled teens

With his heavy Afrikaans accent, bristle-short hair and moustache to match, Sam Doubell looks like the stereotypical apartheid-era policeman that he once was. Now, instead of wearing the dreaded uniform of the old South African Police and arresting criminals and anti-apartheid protesters, Doubell is an assistant probation officer who comes to work in sandals and shorts and gives young offenders a second chance.