THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) has announced that its youth camp for this year will feature close to two hundred children, and will run for one week, starting on Sunday.

Already, ‘A’ Division police have a youth camp being conducted along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, but it will conclude tomorrow, while Sunday’s camp will be held just a few hundred metres from the present location of the ‘A’ Division Camp. More than fifty children from Albouystown and Tiger Bay are presently in the ‘A’ Division camp under supervision of police and residents of the two communities.

The General Police Camp which commences on Sunday will be held under the theme “Empowering Youth through Social Partnership and Team Building for a Better Guyana”. It runs from August 11 to 16, and according to the police, the camp is being held in collaboration with the Guyana Women Police Association, and caters for children between the ages of 9 and 14, who would be selected from police youth clubs and scout groups.

Senior Superintendent Maxine Graham is tasked with coordinating the camp, and will be assisted by several other ranks of the Force, and other volunteers who have decided to offer their services.

The police, in a release, noted that the tour will see the children travelling to Linden and other areas as part of the week-long camp, while sessions in religion, road safety, educational talks, pep-talks, craft work, information technology and games will not be left out of the list of the activities.

At the closing ceremony of the youth camp at Aurora Secondary School in Essequibo last year, Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell rewarded hard working staff and campers who had excelled in the various areas in which they had received teaching. (Leroy Smith)