The Junior Detectives programme is being held by West Yorkshire Police this week at the First Direct Bank Arena and will see 16 students secure a mock knife crime scene.
Students from Corpus Christi Catholic College, Roundhay School, Ralph Thoresby School and Leeds West Academy taking part, with the first of the events being held on Tuesday (December 9).
The programme is focussed on themes of misogyny and violence against women and girls. The mock incident was a scenario following a knife attack in which a member of the public was recovering in hospital from life threatening injuries.
The youngsters were asked with interviewing witnesses, taking statements, securing the crime scene and looking for the discarded weapon.
Our photographer captured the pictures in the below gallery of the crime fighting youngsters.
7. Police
The junior sleuths secured the scene and took statements from witnesses. | James Hardisty
8. Advice
A couple of the pupils getting crime scene photography advice from Charlotte Simpson, Senior Crime Scene Investigator, for West Yorkshire Police. | James Hardisty
9. Ground breaking project
The youth knife crime project has introduced young people from all five districts in West Yorkshire to what reacting to an emergency incident is like. | James Hardisty
10. Second time in Leeds
This is the second time that the programme has been run in Leeds, but this time West Yorkshire Police and the University of Leeds secured the First Direct Arena as the venue for the CSI element of the week-long project. | James Hardisty
11. Hard at work
This time the programme featured a scenario focusing on the themes of misogyny and violence against women and girls. | James Hardisty