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Bedfordshire Police Fix It For Four Children To Become Policemen For The Day

1987 , Toddington (Bedfordshire)

Cat no. 62961

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April Fool’s Day news story of children taking on police roles.

At St George’s Lower School, Toddington in Bedfordshire, four children prepare to join the county police force by becoming police officers for a day. The Toddington Round Table have organised a series of “Fix It” events for local school children, and Bedfordshire Police have arranged a day of foot and traffic patrols, mock accidents and burglaries, under supervision of a policewoman and policeman. In the classroom, the two girls and two boys are kitted out with specially-made police uniforms and handed notebooks and pencils. Wearing yellow high-visibility jackets, the children walk out through the other children in the playground to direct traffic outside the gates. The reporter says that at the end of the day, souvenirs were handed out in true “Fix It” tradition. This short news story was edited on April Fool’s Day and might have been presented as a light-hearted item in the topsy turvy spirit of the day. The reporter was Lindsay Brooke for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Police; Children; Schools; April Fool’s Day

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Bedfordshire Police Fix It For Four Children To Become Policemen For The Day

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