Dancing Pikachu Team Up With Police to Prevent Crime in Singapore
The Pokemon Company is teaming up with a city in Singapore to raise crime awareness.
The Jurong division of the Singapore Police Force launched a week long Pokemon-themed crime prevention campaign on Saturday, March 10th. The event, which coincides with school holidays in Singapore, is designed to teach kids how to prevent crime.
The centerpiece of the campaign are Pokemon game booths at a mall in Jurong West, along with an invasion of oversized Pikachu mascots. Kids can get pictures with Pikachu and watch them dance, while learning some handy lessons about crime in the process.
What will Pikachu/The Pokémon Company teach kids about crime?
The Singapore Police Force hopes to pass along three messages to children (and their parents) with the new Pokemon campaign:
- Don't take dimly lit shortcuts.
- Don't buy counterfeit goods.
- Don't use your phone while driving.
Also at The Star.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Monday March 12 2018, @08:06PM
The police shouldn't be educating anybody; they should be spending their resources completely and utterly on just one thing: Enforcing the lawful order.
Actually, if you are policing by consent, then the police are there to catch lawbreakers after the fact, not enforce the law (that is, prevent the law from being broken in the first place). It is a difference not often appreciated.
Free people can choose whether or not they break the law. Non-free people do not have that choice. For some reason, many police regard their role as removing the power to choose from people - in other words, they wish to control, rather than clear up after the fact. Wishing to control or dominate other people is not usually regarded as a healthy character trait.