Senior Constable Deb Hann and Dani Hibdige are right behind the Blue Light initiatives.
Blue Light is flashing in Cambridge with plans to get young people on a national leadership voyage.
The charity organisation, which has been supporting youth programmes across the country for 35 years, was established in Cambridge earlier this year to provide a coordinated response to youth specific challenges.
It is spearheaded by the town’s youth aid officer constable Dani Hibdige.
She chairs the Blue Light Cambridge committee which consists of representatives from police, Cambridge Community House, High School, Middle School, Neighbourhood Support, Raleigh Street Christian Centre and Blue Light New Zealand. A community advisor from Waipā District Council also attends meetings.
Plans for Blue Light Cambridge include raising funds for a Blue Light Disco, life skills camps, a day a Rainbow’s End and to sponsor youth to go on a national leadership voyage or adventure camp.
This year it has supported the Cambridge skate park opening, a leadership camp and a Future Blue Day where 10 students each from Cambridge High School and St Peter’s Cambridge interested in a police career were provided the opportunity to experience different facets of policing.
Another group went to Taupō for the chance to celebrate achievements with a bungy jump. As part of youth engagement in schools, Blue Light is at Cambridge Middle School with Big Brothers Big Sisters – a youth mentorship programme – and it has promoted the Youth Driver Navigator Programme – which provides lessons to assist youth get a learners or restricted licences.
