Eye-opener for Fight Crime Ambassadors

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Melody said she was delighted to have met Ms Nixon, and was impressed by her personality. "She's very friendly, extremely knowledgeable and a great speaker. She shared with us the qualities a leader should possess. According to her, a leader should have trust and faith in the subordinates, and should set a good example for them. She also emphasised that a leader should have commitment to duty." Melody noted.

Melody said she was impressed by what she saw in a small museum of the Police Academy. The museum traces the evolution of the police through photos, exhibits and the deeds of the officers who had made the ultimate sacrifice on duty, as well as retired officers with long service.

"Apart from knowledge and skills of police work, the recruits in the academy have learned from the museum how their predecessors had served their police force. This is a great inspiration and motivation for the recruits to try to emulate their predecessors," she noted.

In Sydney, the Fight Crime Ambassadors visited the PCYC, a New South Wales Police Rescue and Bomb Unit and the Command Centre of the Water Police. Melody said there are a total of 57 PCYCs, all working towards the same goal as the Junior Police Call (JPC) - steering youths on a straight path. She said the PCYC, in an effort to achieve "less crime and less truancy", as well as a healthy lifestyle among youngsters, organises sports, leadership programmes and award schemes for three target groups, namely, "capable students", "potential victims" and "youths at risk".

Alvin was one of the three Fight Crime Ambassadors assigned to introduce the fight youth crime competition in Hong Kong and answer questions at the meet-the-media session shortly before their departure from Sydney. In reply to questions at the session, Alvin spoke of the differences and similarities between the youths of Hong Kong and Australia in terms of their outlook and values of life, interests and outdoors activities. He added that, unlike other exchange programmes for students, meeting the local police forces and youths was the most rewarding part of Fight Crime Ambassadors' trip to Australia.

Visiting the Mounted Police in Melbourne

Fourteen-year-old Fight Crime Ambassador Janice Kung playing Chinese traditional instrument, erhu, in front of the Police and Community Youth Club members in Sydney

Meeting the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ms Christine Nixon

In Sydney, an officer from New South Wales Police's Marine Area Command explains the use of diving equipment and the marine unit's day-to-day work

Learning "finger-fencing" self-defence at the Victoria Police Academy in Melbourne

Reminiscing about Chinese working at the mining town of Ballarat near Melbourne more than a century ago

Riding on a horse-driven coach for a taste of life more than a century ago in the mining town of Ballarat