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Greater Manchester Police Force's Blackley VPC have been extremely busy over the past few months, taking part in different volunteering events, ranging from Community Fun Days to the Remembrance Sunday Parade in Manchester City Centre.

Twenty Volunteer Police Cadets from across Hertfordshire were invited to attend the High Sheriff’s Justice Service at St Albans Cathedral at the weekend. With celebrity guest 'Mary Berry' in attendance, it proved to be the icing on the cake for the local cadets.

Our VPC cadets are frequently offered opportunities to become involved with external projects and take on influential roles as ambassadors, where they can play a crucial part in helping to drive and influence national initiatives and projects. An example of this is as a Youth Ambassador. Project deSHAME is one such project and is a collaboration between Childnet, Save the Children (Denmark) and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Reece Monson (pictured far right) one of our VPC Sunderland cadets explains further:

GMP Police Cadets Natasha Watkins and Shannon Donnelly recently accompanied the High Sheriff of Greater Manchester, Kui Man Gerry Yeung, to one of his formal events in Manchester. The formal ceremony of the Signing of the Roll and the Portrait Hanging of the High Sheriff took place in the Assize Hall at Crown Square and was attended by the Lord Lieutenant, Mrs Edith Conn and the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Eddy Newman.

In April 2017, Northumbria Police launched their very own Mini Police Scheme by introducing 75 Mini Police new recruits to their Marine, Mounted and Dog sections. The Chief Constable and Police & Crime Commissioner visited the launch and handed the new recruits their uniforms, which was an exciting time for the new officers, their families and teachers, who all came along to the event.

Last year, Cleveland Police Cadets won two national awards, the National Volunteer Police Cadet Award, for Best Social Actions, and the Lord Ferrers Volunteer Police Cadet Team Award for their outstanding work in supporting people living with dementia. On a recent visit to the County, Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Policing, met up with some of the cadets to congratulate them and find out more about their endeavours.

On the weekend of 28 - 30 July, 200 cadets from 16 forces battled it out to be crowned the best unit in the country at the annual Volunteer Police Cadets competition.

As part of their Social Action Plan, a group of cadets from Middlesbrough Police Cadet Unit recently organised a day out for eighteen children who were visiting from Chernobyl in the Ukraine. After contacting the charity Chernobyl Children's Life Line, which supports children affected by the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and explaining what they wanted to do, the charity readily agreed to the cadets taking the children to Preston Park in Stockton on Tees.

On 24th July, as part of the Cadets' Social Action Scheme, the Redcar and Cleveland Cadets facilitated a day trip to the Beamish Museum in County Durham for a group of people living with dementia.

120 Volunteer Police Cadets from around Hertfordshire recently came to Police Headquarters in Welwyn Garden City to take part in the 5th Annual Police Cadets County Competition 2017. There are almost 300 young people signed up to the police cadets in Hertfordshire across the ten districts and each region sent 11 cadets to participate.