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Police in the city of Aarhus, Denmark introduced the scheme after 36 young men travelled to Syria to join jihad, with 19 returning back to the country. But the policy has been criticised by Danish MPs, with Naser Khadeer – a Muslim member of the Conservative People’s party – calling for a hardline approach to foreign fighters. Speaking on the Australian news programme Dateline, he said: “What I have criticised when it comes to the Aarhus model is when you have been in Syria and you come back, it is wrong in my opinion to reward whoever has been in Syria by giving them an apartment, jobs, education. “We should prosecute them not reward them.”

GETTY Superintendent Aarslev claimed 'most' of those returning are now 'very well integrated'

Yet Superintendent Allan Aarslev claimed “most” of those returning from Syria are now “very well integrated and most of them are very happy to have had a second chance”. Superintendent Aarslev said: “These are men who have been to Syria and we don’t know what they have been doing down there and that’s the choice we have to make – between helping them and leaving them alone. “From my point of view it would be much more safe for the local community here to help these young men to have a normal life after they have returned than to leave them alone." He added: “If we did not integrate them into the local community again they would be a safety hazard for us.”

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GETTY The policy is being implemented in Aarhus, Denmark

The police claim since introducing the policy, which includes connecting radicalised members of the community with a Muslim mentor to guide them away from their extremist views, no one has left the city to join the frontline in Syria for two years. Earlier this year a Danish student was reportedly shunned by her community after returning home from battling the barbaric Islamic State regime in Syria. Joanna Palani, 23, claims to have killed more than 100 militants after giving up her studies to travel to the Middle East to fight ISIS. She also allegedly freed a group of women and children who were being held as sex slaves by ISIS militants.

GETTY Joanna Palani claims to have killed more than 100 militants after giving up her studies to fight

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