DIAL-A-COMMUNITY
BUS NEWS
2008
Press
Release;
Thursday 7th August 2008
Grampian
Police Cadets presentation
Continuing
a partnership developed last year, Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus
(DACB) presented Grampian Police’s latest intake of cadets
with certificates of vocational training, at DACB’s Maud
premises today.
In
early January, prior to the first cadet starting their community
placement at Dial-a-Community Bus, all of the Grampian Police
cadets had 3 days of training, which included MiDAS for cars
and MPV training, Passenger Assistance Training and Minibus
Emergency Evacuation Procedures.
DACB
General Manager Rachel Milne said;
“All of the training courses are nationally accredited
qualifications and the cadets worked very hard both during the
training and during their secondments with us. It’s great
to be able to publicly acknowledge their hard work and achievements.”
The
presentation took place at the transport charity’s premises
at the Maud Mart’s Community Services building with the
certificates being presented by Superintendent Bill Archibald
and DACB Chairman Alan Brown, who commented;
“This
is the second year that we have worked with Grampian Police
to provide this training for the police cadets. As a result
the cadets have gained invaluable experience working with vulnerable
people from the communities they will serve as police officers
in the future. The partnership link started last year has continued
to prove fruitful and enjoyable for all involved. Dial-a-Community
Bus looks forward to continuing this partnership with future
cadet intakes”.
The
Grampian Police cadets, all aged between 16 and 18, have been
working alongside the Dial-a-Community Bus staff on the transport
services since January as part of their Developing Community
Citizenship qualification
There
have always been good partnership links between Grampian Police
and Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus, and the community placements
of new cadets from Grampian Police with the transport charity
have built on the strong ties between both organisations.
Grampian
Police and Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus have a long history of
partnership work; volunteer off duty police officers were the
original bus drivers for the DACB project in the 1990’s
and many still drive for the project’s community group
use service as and when they can. As the charity has grown,
the links with Grampian Police have increased with DACB receiving
a lot of help from the Force’s Training Unit and the Mintlaw
police office as well as many other departments.
