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Hi team, and welcome to today's lesson, with me, Mrs. Garrard.

Now in today's lesson, we are going to think about the role of a police officer, and we're going to role play being a police officer.

Let's see the first thing we're going to do.

So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to recap the role of the police officer.

We'll find out what a police officer does.

Then we're going to role play, keeping safe.

And then finally, we're going to learn how to take fingerprints.

So, for this lesson, you are going to need, your listening ears and your looking eyes, you're going to need your imagination, you're going to need some paper, a pencil, and some paint.

Pause the video now and gather the things that you need.

Come back and press play, once you're ready.

Great, now we're ready to think about the role of a police officer.

Can you tell me one thing that a police officer does.

Tell the screen.

Wow.

So many great ideas.

Let's see if some of your ideas are on my slide.

So a police officer enforces the laws.

That means that they make sure that people follow the rules of the country.

They protect the community, and people's property.

They solve crimes, and they catch criminals.

Did you say one of those things? Yeah, I thought that you would.

I know that you know lots about police officers.

Now let's think about ways that police officers keep the community safe.

So, police officers keep the community safe by managing large crowds.

They direct traffic, and they patrol the streets, looking out for crimes, and looking out for ways that they can help people.

Can you see that the picture has two police officers and they're mounted police, that means they are riding police horses.

They are part of the mounted police.

My turn, mounted police, your turn.

Mounted police are used, especially in things like crowds because they can see over the top of the crowds and see what's going on.

So really great way to manage crowds and keep people safe.

Now we're going to role play, being a police officer and keeping people safe.

Can you see the picture on the screen? It's a picture of a firework display, and at fireworks displays, you often find really big crowds.

So we're going to role play how we will be police officers, and keep the crowd safe.

Something might happen that we might need to help with.

Are you ready to be a police officer? You are, okay.

What do we need? What do we need to be a police officer? Oh, we need to put on our uniform.

And because it's nighttime, we need to make sure we're wearing a High-Vis, a high visibility jacket so that we can be seen.

Put on your jacket.

What else does a police officer wear? Tell the screen.

You're right, a police officer wears a helmet.

I haven't got a helmet.

So I'm going to pretend that I have.

I'm going to pretend to put my helmet on.

And I have my badge to show that I'm a police officer.

So now I'm ready to keep the crowd safe at the fireworks display.

I'm going to make sure that they stand back, from the fireworks, they keep a good distance, and stay back so that they stay safe.

But oh, what do I see? As I'm watching the crowds, I noticed that there's a lady and she looks really sad.

Hmm.

I wonder what the problem is.

I think I'm going to go and ask.

You could do that too, come with me.

"Hi madam, what's the problem? "I can see that you're looking sad.

"Is something that matter?" Oh, the lady is telling me, that she's lost her little boy.

Oh my goodness.

There're lots of people and it's very easy for children to get lost.

Let's see if we can help the lady find her little boy.

So, we know that there is a lost child.

What could we do to help the lady find her child? Tell the screen, if you have an idea.

We could ask her some questions about the child you're right.

We need to take a description so that we know who we're looking for.

I've got my little notebook and my pen.

And I'm going to ask the lady what her little child looks like.

We could ask questions like, is it a boy? Is it a girl? What are they wearing? And we could write this description in our book.

Are you ready to do that? Get your pen, get your paper.

"Can we take a description of your child? "What do they like?" Listen carefully.

Oh, she's telling us, they have a red top.

Hmm, red I'm going to write that in my book.

Red, r, e, d.

Red top.

T, o, p.

Oh, so we know that we need to look for a child with a red top.

And she told me that the child was a boy.

So we know that we need to look, for a little boy in a red top.

I wonder what other questions we could ask.

Tell the screen if you have a question, that you think would be great to ask to find out more, about what the little boy looks like.

Oh great, we could ask what colour of hair he has.

That's a really great idea.

Let's ask.

"What coloured hair does he have?" Oh, he had blonde hair.

I'm going to write that in my book, so that I remember.

He has blonde hair.

So now I know that I need to look for a little boy with a red top, and blonde hair.

Now I can start to look.

I know what I might do.

I need the help of all of the other police officers that are here.

How could I do that? I wonder.

Oh, I could use my radio.

Let's pretend we have a radio.

And we could say, calling all units, calling all units, we have a lost little boy.

He has a red top, and blonde hair.

Please be on the lookout.

And let me know if you see him.

Now, we could have a wander around the rest of the crowd and see if we can see the little boy.

Get your eyes ready to have a really good look.

Oh, did you notice just over there? There's a little boy and he does have blonde hair and he does have a red top, and he's crying.

Shall we go and see if he's lost his mum? I wonder what we could say to him? What do you think we could ask? "Are you lost?" You have a term, ask, are you lost? Good job.

I think he is lost.

We could take him, and take him back to his family.

And then, there'll be reunited, everybody will feel so much happier and we will have kept the community and the crowd safe.

We did a really great job of finding the little boy.

We took a description in our notebook.

We had to look around.

We told our colleagues on our radio that they needed to look for a little boy that was lost.

And then we eventually found him.

Team I wonder if you could role play being a police officer in different situations.

So we thought about how a police officer would help in a crowd if a child was lost.

But there're lots of other situations that police officers help with.

They might be searching for clues to catch a criminal.

They might be directing some traffic to keep people safe on the roads.

Right now we're going to act out taking some fingerprints.

Fingerprints are a really great way of catching criminals.

Our fingerprints are individual to us.

That means that everybody's fingerprints are different.

No two sets of fingerprints are the same.

So if a criminal has gone into a bakery maybe and stolen a cake, they might have touched the counter, as they were taking the cake, and left their fingerprint.

Then a police officer could take the fingerprint, off of the counter, and compare it to the fingerprints they take from the criminal.

And if they match, then would know, that that person definitely took the cake.

So let's think about some other ways that police officers catch criminals.

We've spoken about, taking fingerprints, that's collecting evidence.

You could take fingerprints, you could look for clues and you could look for footprints.

That's all really great evidence.

You could also, have interviews with suspects, people that you think might have committed a crime, you could interview them and ask them questions.

And then you could decide whether, you think that they've committed the crime based on the answers that they give.

Investigating, you could investigate, that means look for clues.

And you collect physical evidence, just like I said, just like with the fingerprints.

Then can use all of the information that you know, put all the pieces together, and work out the full picture and see if you think that that person committed the crime.

Let's have a go at taking some fingerprints.

So this is where you'll need your paint.

You will need your black paint and a piece of paper.

I'm going to use my thumb, print it on the paper.

Can you see how I'm going to rock it from one side to the other, to make sure I get all of the lines on my thumb and my fingers.

Have a look at your fingers.

Can you see the lines on them? That's your fingerprint.

I have four fingers and a thumb.

So now I have five prints.

They are my fingerprints.

Now, team, I've really enjoyed role playing, being a police officer.

But that brings us to the end of our lesson today.

You might like to carry on being a police officer.