Chief of Intelligence and Operations ACP Rusiate Tudravu has challenged the various church denominations to actively counsel ex-offenders in their respective communities.

Tudravu says people should also be prepared to accept offenders back into the communities after they have served their prison terms.

He made the comments while launching the Yellow Ribbon Project which helps rehabilitate inmates in Wainibuka, Tailevu.

Tudravu told the villagers, 19 inmates in corrections centres are from Wainibuka.

There are more than 12-hundred inmates at the 13 corrections facilities in the country.