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With police cadets becoming the fastest growing uniformed youth group in the country, we felt it was time to give all our cadets, unit leaders and cadet instructors the chance to tell us what they like about the volunteer police cadets, and most importantly, how things could be improved for the future. Police forces across the UK are rightly proud of their cadet units and of all the work being put in place to build greater youth engagement through further initiatives like the Mini-Police.

ALTRUIST ACTIONS RESULT IN AWESOME OUTCOMES! FOCHRIW Primary School’s Mini Police Collection - ‘The Toys for Grenfell’ Appeal. Merthyr Town Football Club, in the South Wales Valleys, issued a request for help to collect toys for the children involved in the Grenfell Tower Disaster. The campaign, ‘Toys for Grenfell’ is one of Merthyr Town FC’s charitable actions in the wider community.

After a successful pilot of Mini Police Hertfordshire Constabulary are looking to rollout the scheme across the county. To hear what the Force and Primary school teachers have to say check out this amazing video.

We have recently been made aware of two investigations currently being overseen by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) in connection with the actions of police officers and volunteers who supervise the activities of police cadet units. This has also been reported in the news media.

On Wednesday the 28th of November 2018 cadets from around the Humberside area came together to attend the annual Volunteer Police Cadet Attestation. 41 new recruits took to the stage at Hull University to take their oaths and to formally enter the Humberside Police Family. The cadets were joined by their family and friends to help celebrate their achievements so far and recognise the hard work they have put in to successfully complete their initial training.

In partnership with the Security Institute, the Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) has joined their new initiative to inspire and attract young people to consider careers within the UK security industry.

VPC units from across the UK 'Remembered the Fallen and all who Served' On Remembrance Sunday, on the centenary of Armistice, hundreds of Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) proudly marched alongside Veterans, Service colleagues & families in their communities. Here are just some of the amazing young people and adult leaders in the VPC standing proud as part of #OneBigCadetFamily

Alot of research and hardwork ended up in a trip to Belgium for the Isle of Man Cadets. Read about what they did in the log written by PC Michael Griffiths

On Sunday 28th October, on what was initially a very cold and wet day, cadets from Ipswich and Martlesham attended Stratford Court, Whitton, Ipswich, to take part in a community project.

Cleveland Police cadets were presented the plaque by the Police memorial trust as part of the project that they have been doing in order to remember PC 6 William Henderson, murdered in the execution of his duty in 1893, the only Officer to suffer such a fate in the Cleveland area.