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International Youth Gathering 2018 The International Youth Gathering takes place from the 6th to the 19th of August 2018 in Nottinghamshire. This is a very exciting opportunity to have some of your children or grandchildren meet up with other youth from across the IPA world. T he total all-inclusive cost for the 2 weeks is £799. If you are interested in sending your child on this, then please e mail Sean Hannigan direct on vphannigan@ipa-uk.org There is some sponsorship available for the Youth Gathering. Your children must have reached 16 years but not have exceeded 18 years at the start of the IYG.

Please continue to have fun and keep safe enjoying your IPA activity. Wishing all the prospective candidates good luck in the forthcoming election(s) in Scotland. Hopefully I will see plenty of IPA members on the island of St Helena in the very near future where, to my knowledge, I have doubled the IPA numbers by my presence. Yours in Friendship Mick Proud to have been President of Section UK

To conclude, I briefly want to mention the staff at IPA HQ, past and present, who have provided a fantastic service to the members and managed to keep me in check to a degree, and have offered sound advice and support for which I am forever grateful. Nothing is ever possible in IPA circles without dedicated support from your Branch and Region who over the years have helped me enormously to accomplish beyond my expectations. My family and my wife Sara have unconditionally supported me in my IPA journey, allowing me more freedom than I had a right to expect in dedicating hours of time to serve for which I thank them with my endearing love and promise that my time which was used on IPA business will be spent on them in the future. So that’s it “I was the future once” but no more.

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POLICE WORLD Vol 63 No. 2, 2018