Resources for SCS School Road Safety programmes: Years 9-13
The school road safety programmes from the Police School Community Service (SCS) provide young people with appropriate road safety skills and practices at all levels of their schooling.
Resources for SCS Drug Education programmes
Choice is a drug education programme for Years 5-8 from the Police School Community Service (SCS). It helps young people to make responsible choices and decisions about the use of drugs and gives them the skills to implement these. It is delivered in a partnership between a teacher and a Police School Community Officer.
Reducing the Harm is designed to help secondary schools minimise the harm from illicit drug use. It consists of a seven-step action plan and includes material for teachers, parents and caregivers and students.
Resources for SCS Kia Kaha anti-bullying programmes
Kia Kaha is a programme from the Police School Community Service (SCS) that aims to help schools create environments where all members of the community feel safe, respected and valued, and where bullying cannot flourish.
Material has been prepared for students to work through in the classroom, for teachers to use to create environments where bullying won't flourish and for parents and caregivers to use to help their children develop positive social interactions.
Resources are broken down into school year groups. These are:
Introduction
Policing is about providing the law and order underpinning on which successful societies flourish. In this briefing we point to pressures on frontline service delivery and investigations, emergent issues such as new crimes and security threats, and a need for a longer-term investment strategy in policing that avoids 'boom' and 'bust' cycles, and enables more coherent resource and deployment planning.