Fourteen scouts and their leaders from the Pamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scouts attended the Indooroopilly Police Station on Saturday, where they were shown the ‘ropes’ by police and became honourary members of the QPS for the afternoon.
Scouts Citizenship Badge
The tour was in support of the scouts achieving their Citizenship Badge. To achieve this badge the scouts must complete a number components, which includes the ‘Community’ component. This component requires a scout to organise a visit to an organisation that serves the local community. Indooroopilly Police Station was selected as the scout’s chosen community organisation.
During their tour, the scouts had the opportunity to experience an operational police station first hand. Their experience included learning about the functions of police in the community, speaking with general duties officers and detectives, learning about police equipment, experiencing police facilities such as; interview rooms, holding cells and fingerprinting rooms and checking out a number of police vehicles (which
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