Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng announced yesterday that a total of 241 participants graduated from their two training programmes titled “Community Safety Youth Leader Programme” and “Youth Crime Fighter”, each of which lasted a year, with the aim of strengthening local students’ awareness of their social responsibility and the rule of law, while also cultivating their sense of belonging to the nation.
The Community Safety Youth Leader Programme is for college students, while Youth Crime Fighter is for secondary students.
Delivering a speech during yesterday’s closing ceremony for the two programmes, Sit said at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) in Zape that since the implementation of the two training programmes in 2013 and 2018 respectively, the content of the training courses has been continuously optimised and innovated, “effectively” cultivating the holistic view of the students’ national security, building up their emotional sense of national pride, enhancing their social responsibility, and carrying forward the core values of loving Macau and loving the motherland.
Since the launch of the programmes, according to Sit, the number of participants and the positive results have continued to expand, accumulating around 3,000 trainees.
Through the two programmes, Sit said he expected the graduates to continue to uphold their social responsibility, bravely accept challenges, continue to grow and continue to learn, thereby contributing to the development of the nation and the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).
The launch ceremony for the next edition of the two training programmes was held at the same time, with 100 tertiary education students from seven local higher education institutions and 300 students from 42 local secondary schools joining the two programmes.
Sit said he hoped that the new trainees would seize the opportunity to upgrade themselves through the two programmes, while spreading the core values of patriotism and loving Macau, as well as caring for civil society.
A college student surnamed Lei spoke about her experience in the programme, particularly highlighting the crisis negotiation training that left a profound impact on her. A high school student surnamed Yun said that the programme extended beyond classroom lectures to equip participants with real-world crime prevention skills – from countering cyber scams during outreach campaigns to peer-educating communities – transforming theoretical knowledge into societal safety actions.
Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng (centre) and representatives of the “7th Community Safety Youth Leader Programme” and “12th Youth Fight Crime” pose during yesterday’s closing ceremony of the two programmes at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) in Zape. – Photo: Armindo Neves
