A group of lucky primary and middle school students won the opportunity to be Commissioner for the Day as part of Police Week.

Yesterday, seven students from schools across the Island were invited to the Police Headquarters where they were met by Acting Commissioner of Police Rosenda Young and senior Police officers.

Tierra Souza-Wolffe, Donovan Chin, Erin Flemming, Kaz Godfrey, Najee Pitt, Tia Easton, Lateef Trott and Kesia Robinson toured the headquarters from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in reward for winning essay competitions.

They attended a mock press conference at the Police Media Relations offices to learn what Media Relations Officers Dwayne Caines and Robin Simmons do on a daily basis.

The next stop was the CCTV room with Insp. Cal Smith where they saw 22 monitors covering the City of Hamilton.

Sgt. Minton Gilbert told them how Police officers work in the room.

He explained the cameras cover an area starting at Pitts Bay Road and go as far as Arnold's Market at the end of Front Street. Toward the end of the day, the students had lunch in the Bermuda Police Officers mess room with the senior officers.

They were given a special meal of chicken wings, french fries and onion rings while the adults had traditional Bermudian food including macaroni and cheese, chicken, fish, salad and rice.

After lunch, the youngsters were treated to officer safety and K9 demonstrations with Police dogs.

Finally, at the end of the day, the students were given awards for the essays they had written.

Kesia said: "The best part of the day was experiencing the hard work it takes to be a Commissioner and all the duties and responsibilities of helping Bermuda and making sure everything is on target so everyone can be happy."

Najee and Erin agreed everything was good about the day, but Erin said she liked the CCTV room the best.

Tierra explained the best part for her was meeting Ms Young and the sergeants because she hopes to be an officer one day.

"We had a heavy concentration on our youth," Mr. Caines said of Police week. "We wanted to expose them to every aspect of leadership and one of the skill sets that is necessary is public speaking.

"We hope that today's experience will last with these youngsters for a long time and whatever their future endeavours, they will always be among Bermuda's best".

The students were from Sandys Secondary Middle School, Port Royal Primary School, Bermuda Institute, Clearwater Middle School and Prospect Primary School.

In order to win, the students had to write an essay of 100 words or less explaining why they wanted to be Commissioner of Police for a day.