A SCHEME which has helped thousands of North Yorkshire schoolchildren learn how to deal with potentially dangerous situations celebrated its tenth anniversary yesterday.
The Crucial Crew event, run by the county's police force, celebrated the landmark by welcoming a new group of seven to 11-year-olds.
Over the next ten days at Deverell Barracks, Ripon, they will learn about safety on farms and be given advice on drugs and bullying.
More than 85,000 children have taken part in schemes in the Richmond, Scarborough, York and Harrogate areas during the past decade.
Crucial Crew founder PC Alan Drinkall said: "It is incredible to think that we've had this amount of children through our doors over the past ten years.
"If we've managed to make children more aware of the dangers around them and told them how to deal with a real-life emergency, then we'll have done what we set out to achieve.
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