Constable Care
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Constable Care is a community awareness mascot, currently employed by the Western Australia Police to inform primary school children about basic safety issues. He is now owned by a non-profit organisation, the Constable Care Child Safety Foundation.
Originally Constable Care was created by Wayne Hodges in 1984 in Sydney, Australia, as a member of the New South Wales Police Force Safety Advisory Section. The New South Wales Police Safety Advisory Section (later changed to Unit) were a group of dedicated NSW Police Officers who visited school throughout Sydney to teach children about important safety topics.
In the late 1980s the Western Australia Police adopted Constable Care. Aside from participating in regular public awareness campaigns targeting schoolchildren, since 1987 the West Australian newspaper has been publishing in each edition a two-line rhyming couplet under Constable Care's byline encouraging younger readers to be safety-conscious and civic-minded. These aphorisms are noted for its banal advice and awkward scansion, but have perhaps helped develop Constable Care's recognition and inevitable transition into Western Australian folklore.
Constable Care's appearance has changed; he has since lost his moustache and his face is now less angular.
