Kids have fun, learn at Madison Police Department’s Kids Camp

MADISON – If you heard a loud boom today around Discovery Middle School and also a few sirens blaring, all is good. It was all part of Kids Camp, led by the Madison City Police Department. The explosion was a demonstration of a diversionary tactic used some times to distract.

Kids Camp is an opportunity for School Resource Officers (SROs) and others in the department to forge trusting relationships with students and educate them on what they do. The week-long camps are run over the course of several weeks. More than 300 students are participating this year.

Kids are divided into teams and play games with one another to learn teamwork, as well as get treated to demonstrations like the SWAT team diversionary tactic explosion and watching a K-9 pursue a pretend suspect.

By John Peck, Madison City Schools