Students from the Learning Support Centre at St Paul’s who completed the ten-week comprehensive Learning for Life & Work course in conjunction with the PSNI.

Art work that the Learning Support Centre students created during the ten-week course.

Head of St Paul’s Learning Support Centre Mr Paddy McAvoy, with Colleague Mr Ciaran O’Hare, along with District Inspector Lorraine Dobson  and Constable Rachel Montgomery.

Pupils from St Paul’s Learning Support Centre recently undertook a ten-week comprehensive Learning for Life and Work course in conjunction with the PSNI.

Officers visited the school and delivered the CASE (Citizenship and Safety Education) programme to the pupils. These sessions consisted of a series of talks and information on various subjects including; drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, vandalism, anti social behaviour, knife crime, CSI and traffic violations.

The sessions explained how the law works and how young people can find themselves in positions of danger and how to avoid this. The PSNI officers also explained how the service operates and what assistance and protection can be offered by the PSNI when people are at risk.

The pupils got to look up close at the CSI in action when they participated in exercises showing how evidence is gathered and protected. They also were given a guided tour of the PSNI’s extensive range of equipment including patrol cars, motorbikes and the vast array of equipment carried by an every police officer.

The course was completed with a two day residential where everyone took part in off road driving, blindfold landrover driving, off road rallying as well as zip wiring and many other activities.

The students created a display in the school highlighting the different aspects and subject matter of the programme and they were presented with their certificates by District Inspector Lorraine Dobson and Constable Rachel Montgomery who delivered aspects of the course.