OPEN DOOR DAY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
| Banja Luka | Monday, 16/11/2015
Today, at the Administration for Police Education, as a part of marking their patron’s day, the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior has organised Open Day for students of preschool and school institutions.
Around 160 pupils from kindergartens “Prvi koraci” and “Andrej” from Banja Luka, students from primary schools “Borisav Stanković“ from Banja Luka, “Dragan Vujanović“ from the municipality of Novi Grad, and secondary school of economics “Ekonomska škola” from Banja Luka visited the Administration
The students had an opportunity to attend the educational presentations, to visit classrooms with weapons, criminalistics classrooms, the museum exhibition, and to see demonstration exercises in different situations, as well as exercises of self-defence and exercises with police dogs.
In addition, in cooperation with Automobile and Motorcycle Association of the Republic of Srpska, traffic training ground and safe behaviour in traffic were presented to the students.
On this occasion, the head of the Administration for Police Education, Mr Mile Šikman, said that the aim of this event was to introduce our youngest citizens to dangers in traffic in a way they can understand, as well as to point to possible ways of protection in various situations. Among the dangers, Mr Šikman especially emphasised the emergence of peer violence and dangers that appear when the youngest members of society use the Internet.
Mr Šikman also told that the purpose of the Open Day is to help children develop their trust in the police, and to send a message within the contemporary concept of community policing, that the police officer is the first at citizen’s service, being there to protect them and help them.
The Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interiror organises Open Day twice a year, and this way, it is trying to engage as many students as possible of all age groups in educational activities, and introduce them to the police work.
