Help avoid the stress and tears, get your free armbands.
With the busiest day of the Cairns Show about to start, a quick reminder from your local police, don’t forget armbands for the kids!
FREE ARMBANDS are available from the Police Crime Prevention display at the Fred Moule Pavillion. With crowd attendance expected to be in excess of 80,000 people police urge parents and guardians to keep an eye your youngsters so we don’t have tears, tantrums, tissues and a long line of lost children handed into the police show office.
It takes but a blink of an eye for a little one to disappear in a large crowd.
The free armbands will allow you to include your mobile phone number you have at the show (no point putting on a number that’s left at home unattended or with a flat battery).
So far so good, lost children have been very few and far between.
Prior to attending the show, families should:
- Establish a rendezvous point to meet should the family become separated;
- Explain that if your child gets lost, they should stand still like they have glue on their shoes and shout out in their biggest outside voice and call out to you;
- Explain that police officers will be able to help them if they can’t find their parents;
- Speak to children about the importance of protective behaviours;
- Help your children understand what they need to do to stay safe.
LOST CHILDREN will be taken to the Police Show office located underneath the Main Grandstand (Mulgrave Road end of the Showgrounds).
Come and see the police motorbike at the Crime Prevention display
Our crime prevention display features SHARE THE ROAD and general road safety tips as well as other information about the police blog www.mypolice.qld.gov.au and other crime prevention initiatives.
Share the Road is the feature of the Crime Prevention Display at the Cairns Show
Free armbands available at the Cairns Show
Anyone with information which could assist with this matter should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day.
Crime Stoppers is a registered charity and community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.
For all non-urgent police reporting or general police inquiries contact Policelink on 131 444 or Policelink.qld.gov.au 24hrs a day.