A new addition to the activities celebrating Police Week marking the 44th Anniversary of the Royal Anguilla Police Force was a rally in The Upper Valley on Monday, January 25.
The event involved police officers wearing anniversary t-shirts, officers from the Anguilla Fire and Rescue Service, members of the two Motorcycle Clubs – the Cool Riders and the Thunder Cruisers and the Pathfinders’ Drum Band. The rally, in the form of a march, started at Police Headquarters and made its way down the Secretariat Road, across to The Valley Roundabout, up the Albert Lake Drive, across the Airport Road and back to Police Headquarters.
Inspector Marva Brooks, who has responsibility for this year’s Police Week of Activities, told The Anguillian: “We are just doing a march around the block in celebration of Police Week and the theme for our 44th Anniversary – Working with you, Working for You, Anguilla Community, We are committed to you. We are showing the police reaching out to and engaging the community. This is the first time that we are having something of this sort incorporated in our Police Week and designed towards our efforts to reach out to the community.”
Former Minister of Infrastructure, Mr. Evan Gumbs, a member of the Cool Riders’ Motorcycle Club, commented: “The Police requested the Cool Riders and the Thunder Cruisers to be part of their rally. We are supporting the police because we need the police to support us as well, so we are working together as a community. The police should work with the community and the community with the police. That is the way we can help to maintain law and order.”
