West Shore RCMP Community Policing Services and Indigenous Policing Services work with local students to help, “Lift Each Other Up” on Pink Shirt Day.

West Shore

2024-02-27 12:05 PST

Pink Shirt Day is observed every year on the last Wednesday in February. This year, officers from West Shore RCMP Community Policing Services and Indigenous Policing Services worked with local students to help, Lift Each Other Up through creating inspirational artwork.

Officers teamed up with students from Dunsmuir Middle School, Spencer Middle School and Esquimalt Nation to create inspiring art projects.

Dunsmuir Middle School Students

Esquimalt First Nation students

Spencer middle School students

The project encourages kids to look beyond our differences and celebrate the things that make each of us unique. Kindness is a gift everyone can give and the students really enjoyed creating art with the officers, said Ms. Larson, grade 6 teacher at Dunsmuir Middle School.

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West Shore RCMP Community Policing Unit Pink Shirt Day Art Project

Video opens with Jazz music playing in the background which continues throughout the video.

Videos depicts Officers from West Shore RCMP Community Policing Services and Indigenous Policing Services in a grade 6 classroom. The officers are assisting the students in drawing inspirational messages on pink paper. The paper is cut out into t-shirt shapes. The students then tack their t-shirt messages onto large canvases. The video ends with an image of one of the canvases that says Kindness Matters.

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The officers recreated Pink Shirt Day Images on large canvas and asked the students to draw their own inspirational Pink Shirt Day messages which were then added onto the canvas. The canvases are on display at the schools and Esquimalt Nation to raise awareness about the impacts of bullying.

The art project was fun for us and the students who created some amazing artwork, said Cst Justina Webb, West Shore RCMP Community Policing Officer. Cst. Webb is an accomplished artist herself and is in the final stages of becoming an RCMP certified Police Sketch Artist.

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Cst. Andrew Matheson

Media Relations Officer
West Shore RCMP
698 Atkins Avenue Victoria BC V9B 3A4
Office: 250-474-2264

Email: westshore_media@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Website: westshore.rcmp.ca (English only)

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