August 1, 2007 The Abaconian

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Police Held Summer Youth Program

By Jennifer Hudson

Officers of the Abaco Branch of the Roy-
al Bahamas Police Force held their summer
youth programme Working Towards a Bet-
ter Community for the third year running
during the month of July. The programme
went from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day be-
tween July 2 and 27 and was held at the
Central Abaco Primary School. It was open
to youngsters between the ages of 7 and 15
years. Each year the camp is very popu-
lar and 60 children attended the first week.
The organizers expected more for the sec-
ond and third weeks as several other activi-
ties which were also running during week
one kept the numbers a little lower.

It was originally planned that separate
camps be held in North, Central and South
Abaco but once the camps began it was de-
cided to combine all three camps into one
single central camp. So the children from

 

Cooper’s Town and Sandy Point were
bused into Marsh Harbour each day. “We
decided to bring the children together so
that they could have more interaction with
all the kids,” stated Cpl. Campbell. A rep-
resentative from the Police Force in each
of the three areas helped to run the camp:
Woman Sgt. Johnson from the North, Cpl.
Higgs from the South and Cpl. Miller
from Central Abaco with Cpl. Campbell as
Overseer.

While there were some more formal class-
es such as Bahamian history, art instruction
and lectures from the Police Department,
Bahamas Electricity Corporation, Bahamas
Telecommunications Corporation, the fire
department and district clinics, there were
also some fascinating and fun demonstra-
tions. One day the children enjoyed the
excitement of having rides around the fore-
court on the motorcycles of three officers

The children attending the police summer program enjoyed going for rides on the police
motor cycles. The police emphasized active activities at the camp so it would appeal to

the children and not be like another school.

of the Police Mororcycle Squad, clinging
tightly around the officers’ waists.

The organizers planned to keep the class-
room activities to a minimum this year as,
according to Cpl. Campbell, “we realized
that the children spend the whole school
year sitting in desks. They are tired of the
classroom and need to get out and play and
have fun during the summer. Therefore,
we have put a lot of emphasis on fun and

games and field trips this year.” Field trips
were taken to Treasure Cay Beach, Bahama
Palm Shores and Spanish Cay. Each child
paid $20 for the entire summer programme
which included lunch every day and a camp
T-shirt.

“We hope this year will be a great suc-
cess so that we will have an even bigger
crowd next year,” stated Cpl. Campbell.

 

Crafts and other creative fun projects were planned for the children attending the police

summer program in Marsh Harbour.

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