A group of students took part in this year’s Wirral Emergency Services Day in July. An annual event, it is a fantastic opportunity for the students to meet members of the emergency services and find out more about the work they do.
The thinking behind the event – held at the Emergency Services Centre in Seacombe – is to help break down barriers between young people and the emergency services.
The students met representatives from Merseyside Police, Merseyside Fire and Rescue, HM Coastguard and St John Ambulance.
They tried on hats and helmets, held riot shields and batons, squirted fire hoses, met police horses, sat at the wheel of emergency vehicles and tested speed guns.
There were talks on staying safe online, fire safety, first aid and open water safety, as well as hands-on demonstrations from the police’s drone unit, the road safety partnership’s speed enforcement team, and the fire service’s water rescue unit.
Merseyside Police said: “Sessions like this are vital in helping to break down barriers and providing the confidence to contact the emergency services in the future, should they need to.”
