Kids learn lifesaving lessons
The SAPS Kids’ Day event was a thrilling mix of education, entertainment, and community engagement.
Hundreds of children were thrilled to get up close and personal with emergency vehicles, including police cars, ambulances, and fire engines, over the weekend.
This was all thanks to the Lyttelton Sector 4 Community Policing Sub-Forum (LS4 CPSF), which organised the Kids’ Safety Day on Saturday.
The event was held at the corner of Piering and Delmas roads, Delmas Park.
Chairperson of LS4 CPSF, Frans Sauer, says children were exposed to all the security services available in our area, as well as their rescue services.
Sauer says the Kids’ Safety Day is an event where they collaborate with all security and rescue services in their area to expose children to the services available to them and what to expect in an emergency.
The fire department, police, metro police, ambulances and several other security companies talked in general about safety, road safety, individual safety and people safety.
“This is an annual event, and this year we made it interesting for our children, with [a] few activities which included a demonstration of a take-down by the security companies working together with police and metro police.”
Children had the opportunity to explore police vehicles, metro police vehicles and ambulances, as well as interact with the police horses and dogs. The event concluded with a water-filled finale as the fire department sprayed the children.
One of the parents, Sarie du Toit, said the event was educational and provided children with the opportunity to learn more about their safety and where to get help in an emergency.
“The children had the opportunity to interact with the police, metro police and other emergency services,” said Du Toit.
She described the event as a career day because children had the opportunity to understand how different emergency services operate and to decide what they want to do when they grow up.
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