The Number of JPC Awardees Hits Record High

The 98th Hong Kong Award for Young People (AYP) Silver Award Presentation Ceremony concluded successfully on October 12. Despite of the social unrest and the raging pandemic last year, the number of awardees from the Hong Kong Police Operating Authority (POA) hit record high. A total of 57 Junior Police Call (JPC) members were honoured the Silver Award Certificates (2019: 40 ; 2018: 10), marking their excellent performance. The officiating guest Matthew CHEUNG Kin-chung, the Chief Secretary for Administration, presented a recorded video to encourage all awardees. Other officiating guests included Chief Superintendent of PPRB Kenneth KWOK Ka-chuen, Chairman of Award Council LO Yan-lai and Vice-Chairman of Award Council KWOK Wing-leung.

AYP is a programme with elements of challenge, goal setting, pursuance and achievement. Through an outstanding and world-recognized rewarding system, AYP offers young people aged 14-24 different opportunites to understand themselves and the community via experiential learning. The programme also addresses whole person development by nuturing young people with positive values and a sense of social responsibility to well use their leisure time.

In this year’s ceremony, all attendees had to follow a series of social distancing measures. Awardees needed to undergo body temperature check while classrooms were used for crowd management. POA hopes that the JPC Silver awardees will continue to participate in more activities, and looks forwards to reunion again at the Gold Award Presentation Ceremony.

Feedback on Joining of the Unforgettable Kayak Elementary Training Course from Student LEUNG

I am fortunate to meet a coach who is humorous, fun and reassuring, as well as good classmates and friends, who supported me to boldly try different techniques and to paddle far away. I have visited and heard about different places in Sai Kung during hiking, but the feeling of canoeing to the destination is totally different.

In the morning, I tried paddling to the proximal navigation mark. Experiencing strong wind and wave during navigation, I felt that it’s more dangerous to fool around in water than in mountains. But I made it luckily. When I reached the typhoon shelter, the wave far weakened, and I attempted draw stroke. It is memorable that we once questioned the coach about the way of draw stroke when we failed to do so. Yet he simply replied “practice makes perfect”, which encourage me a lot. I was mostly delighted to know everyone overcome the hesitation of taking Kayak One Star training course and enjoyed practicing capsizing with fun. Actually, there is nothing so scary about capsizing!

Mastering skills through practice ! I lagged behind the team without being noticed in the afternoon because of the long voyage, coupled with my weak physical fitness, and the inability to master the skills of turning and paddling. At that moment, I was a little bit discouraged and had a sense of powerlessness to catch up with my teammates. Unexpectedly, one of my friends recognized my situation and stopped to wait for me. At that time, I felt love in the world!

 

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