Press Release

ROCK SCHOOL APPEAL FOR INSTRUMENTS

Young people and police officers from North Liverpool are appealing for instruments to help them create a band as part of a 'Rock School' project being pioneered by police officers in the area.

Officers have been providing tuition for young people from across the area in their spare time, teaching them to play acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, drums and bass guitar. They are also being taught mixing skills on turntable decks.

Sergeant Chris Lynch, head of the proactive security force at the Community Justice Centre, North Liverpool, which supports a wide range of diversionary projects with young people across the area said: We are currently working towards our first public performance and are appealing to musicians, schools, music shops or anyone who may have any spare instruments to donate them to our 'Rock School'.

We want to teach young people a skill that they can really get into, while learning some valuable life lessons. If they want to succeed they have to be very dedicated, spend time rehearsing and work as a team with their fellow band members. We are already seeing some real talent and we are looking forward to selecting the final line up of our band.

If you have an instrument you would like to donate to the Rock School or are a young person interested in joining, please contact Sergeant Chris Lynch on 0151 298 3617. Instruments can be collected.

The Community Justice Centre, North Liverpool is the only one of its kind in England and Wales and is a pilot project aimed at bringing justice closer to the community by tackling crimes and anti-social behaviour-type offences that affect the quality of life for residents in the local authority wards of Anfield, Everton, County and Kirkdale. It houses a courtroom with a wide range of community resources available to local people, victims and witnesses, as well as offenders.