Blue Light Blue Light is a registered charity that works nationwide in partnership with the police to deliver an extensive range of youth programmes and activities. The goals of Blue Light are to: • Reduce the incidence of young people becoming an offender or victim of crime • Encourage better relations between the Police, young people, their parents, and the community. Blue Light aims to assist the Police to achieve its youth and community objectives by providing proactive initiatives to meet a key target market. It does this by providing young people with positive lifestyle alternatives and strategies to avoid becoming an offender or victim of
crime. Across New Zealand Blue Light works with its Blue Light branches to do a variety of community engagements. The Blue Light Obstacle Course (BLOK) is the latest community engagement programme and is a giant inflatable obstacle course, 33 metres long, that has been designed for all primary school children, regardless of ability, to easily participate in physical activity and have fun while doing so! Inflatables were originally developed for children experiencing disability as it offered a way for children to play physically without hurting themselves, and to provide an accessible range of activity for all children regardless of issues of coordination, weight, or fitness. Once at the desired location, the obstacle course is inflated, set up and supervised
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