Gardaí Bring Road Safety Message to Cork Schools with Operation Nexus Visit
Gardaí brought Operation Nexus to Blackrock and Mahon schools last week, teaching road safety to students from playschool to secondary level.
An Garda Síochána brought their road safety initiative to Blackrock and Mahon last week, engaging with students from playschool age through secondary level as part of Operation Nexus.
Officers from Cork's Garda Division visited a local playschool and Nagle Community College during the outreach programme, which uses a specially modified Garda patrol car to educate young people about road safety.
Transition Year students at Nagle Community College were shown the Lifesaver programme, an educational initiative that focuses on road safety awareness. The programme uses interactive methods to demonstrate the potentially life-saving decisions that pedestrians, cyclists, and future drivers must make on Irish roads.
The highlight of the visits proved to be the Garda patrol car, which drew enthusiasm from both the youngest playschool attendees and the older secondary students. Operation Nexus features a seized Volkswagen Golf that was previously used in criminal activity and has been repurposed as an educational tool to teach young people about the dangers of reckless driving and the importance of road safety.
The visits form part of Operation Nexus, an An Garda Síochána initiative that engages with communities to promote road safety awareness. The programme has visited schools and community events across Ireland.
With schools in the Blackrock and Mahon areas benefiting from last week's programme, the initiative continues An Garda Síochána's commitment to reaching young people with vital safety messages before they become drivers themselves.
