Police training helps to improve discipline and build team spirit
A group of secondary students have become more disciplined and learned to be team players after joining a police training camp.
More than 80 students from CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School, Kei San Secondary School, Buddhist Wai Wan Memorial College and CCC Kung Lee College took part in a six-day camp at the Police Training School in Aberdeen.
Jointly organised by the Education Department and the Police Training School, the Smart Teen Challenge Camp focused on discipline and physical training.
Participants took part in activities including hiking, tent- pitching, orienteering and obstacle races. The camp also aimed to develop participants' leadership and interpersonal skills.
Run by experienced police instructors, the camp was a modified version of formal police training. But it was hard enough for the students.
At the graduation ceremony, Lam Chi-yin, senior sergeant at the Police Training School, told the students: 'The training was tough, and we meant to make it tough. We were not trying to make your lives difficult.
'We simply wanted to point out your mistakes and problems so you could correct and overcome them.'
He said he was happy that most of the students were able to complete the training.
CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memo rial Secondary School principal Fong Shun-yuen said the camp was a brilliant idea and greatly benefited the students.
'Nowadays young people lack discipline,' he said.
Challenges ahead
'They are spoiled and most of them are self-centred. Many commit suicide because they cannot accept failure and fail to find ways to solve their problems.'
Mr Fong said the camp helped to prepare students for the challenges ahead.
Lai Kwai-tung, 15, of CCC Kung Lee College, was proud of herself for completing the training. 'The training was really hard and the instructors were very demanding,' the third former said.
'I thought of giving up on the first day, but I managed to complete the training thanks to the encouragement and support of my teachers and fellow participants.'
Kwai-tung also said she had become more fit after attending the camp.
Ng Ming-chiu, 16, said she be came more outgoing and daring after the training.
'I was very shy and quiet before,' she said.
'I have learned to be more responsible and to face up to challenges.'
Wai Chun-tung, 15, of Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School, said the training was tough but beneficial.
'I agree that today's teenagers are spoiled. At the camp, we had to obey our instructors and follow the rules,' he said.
'I have become more disciplined and I have higher expectations of myself now.'
