THE Guyana Police Force (GPF), through their various police divisions and respective commanders, are continuing its relationship with communities across the country.

On Saturday, just hours after participating in the Force’s 175th Anniversary Route March through the streets of Georgetown, police ranks entered Agricola and continued working with the children at the school in the

community, and upgrading the Community Centre Ground.

The wife of ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken and police officers visited the St Anne’s Primary School in the community and continued their skills training with the young ones.

Saturday’s activity entailed painting of plastic plates. The students had indicated that they wanted to do art and craft work with the use of plastic plates, and that request was granted by the police.

As obtains every week, snacks were provided for the children, and Saturday’s fare was tropical juices. The skills training sessions at the school are held on Saturdays from 10 hrs to noon, and cater for students from the school and other children from the area.

‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken; ‘A’ Division Traffic Officer Calvin Brutus; and Number Two Sub-Division Officer, Deputy Superintendent Parshram Kalicharan, visited the community centre ground — situated further in the village – to oversee the renovation and upgrade being undertaken by the GPF through its work with the community. The police have been able to get the business community to pump resources into this project. Through intervention of Deputy Superintendent Calvin Brutus, the GPF was able to secure several truckloads of sand to build up the ground. Mesh and poles to re-fence the entire ground have also been supplied.

On Saturday, a front-end loader from the Ministry of Public Works was present at the location to shuttle sand from the road into the ground. Later that same

day, trucks from BK International were expected to visit the location with several other loads of sand for the project. The police are looking to re-commission the ground this weekend with a grand cook-out between themselves and members of the community, followed by a fun day and several competitive games of football under floodlights.

(By Leroy Smith)