Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Summer Survival Skills



Demonstrating they work well together both on the streets and in the woods, Amherst and UMass Police Departments are teaming up once again to jointly sponsor a Police Youth Adventure Academy this summer.

The versatile program provides 20 children the golden opportunity to learn police procedures in the morning and then spend afternoons negotiating a ropes course.

And best of all, the entire one week program is free!  So hurry up parents, enrollments are limited.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've heard a lot of good things about this one week camp!

Anonymous said...

This sounds really cool and a great community builder too.

Anonymous said...

May I offer a suggestion -- a genuine suggestion to the APD & UMPD?

Do something similar for the various UM Freshman Orientation sessions this summer. Let the incoming student's first impression of your officers be the nice guys (and gal) in T-shirts who did something nice for them.

You get 2-3 UM students saying "hey, I know that officer, don't you dare throw that bottle at him" and it won't get thrown.