Dromore pupil’s cop school adventure

Year 10 student Rebecca Clinghan won a place on the new show after impressing at auditions held at the school last year.

Rebecca’s adventures alongside five other kids from across the UK are screening each Monday at 5.45pm on CBBC. Six of the eight episodes remain to be shown (catch-up screenings go out on CBBC on BBC2 on Sundays at 9.30am).

Cop School sees its six young ‘cadets’ meet the world’s oldest police force as they try to compete a unique training course, but can they cut it in the ‘Met’?

For Rebecca and the others it’s school, but not as they know it. CBBC takes the six ordinary youngsters on an extraordinary journey in the heart of London, there to become the youngest ever cadets to train with the world’s oldest police force, the Metropolitan Police.

Every week, the cadets learn a different side of modern policing – from dog handling and traffic, through forensics and river police, to public order and transport.

Across the action-packed series, they tackle Cop School criminals, rioters and even a high-speed chase along the Thames.

They are helped along the way by specialist Met Mentors who teach them the skills they need to succeed in their final challenge.

Ex-copper Rav Wilding, of Crimewatch fame, is there throughout to keep an eye on events and to give Rebecca and the others a helping hand when the going gets tough. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” he said, “for the cadets to experience, first hand, the skills of the most famous force in the world.

“I, or any copper, I am sure, would have loved the chance to do all this.”

Each week cadets compete to be chosen as Top Cops, as they learn to shoulder the responsibilities of policing one of the world’s biggest cities.

The series ends with the cadets marching in a Passing Out Parade alongside other newly qualified police officers, where their unique achievements earn them the praise of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner himself.

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