Does any of your teens take part in police cadets?

[busybeeee222]

My daughter wants to be in the police and we just found out about the police cadets, just wondering if anyone has a child that goes to police cadets?

We are interested to know what type of things they do there?

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I don’t know anyone who does but have met some through work. Have a look at Thames valley police cadets Twitter, they post a lot snout what they do. Twitter username is @tvp_cadets

DS does but he only started literally just before the pandemic and his group aren't quite up and running at 100% yet.
Nice bunch of kids, peak sensible from the sounds of it. Apparently the sniffer dogs will be visiting them soon which sounds like fun. Pre-pandemic they were due to have a multi agency emergency mock up in a shopping centre one evening, I do hope that happens this year.
For now it's just classroom based and learning about the law.

My daughter does, she is in her 4th year having started when she was 13. She enjoys it, they have visits from Police teams like dogs, drones, traffic police etc Other weeks they learn about things like county lines, knife crimes and other illegal activities, sometimes they just play sports. They also have been out leaflet dropping and searching for hidden knives. There are opportunities to take part in other events too. It is all free including the uniform we just pay £30 a year insurance.

My DS is 15 and in our local met police cadets. He loves it. They go on operations with trading standards and recently had a forensics session.
They also do Duke of Edinburgh.
Great teamwork and camaraderie.
He's going to start college this year with a view to joining the police.

DD13 is in police cadets and absolutely loves it. Done so much for confidence. If you're on twitter check out @cadetswmp to see the things they do.

How do you learn more about this, and which areas it operates in?

Ignore me, have just googled it