WATH: Alex's police poster due to be unveiled

A STUDENT who won a poster competition to help market a new type of police device is to have her work unveiled in Wath.

Alex Siddons won the poster competition organised by South Yorkshire police to promote the roll-out of BlackBerry Smartphones to front-line officers.

The Wath Comprehensive school pupil is having her winning poster shown on one of several new public information pillars in Rotherham.

The competition was open to all secondary schools in the borough, to promote the new police gadgets which over a thousand of the region’s officers now have.

The new technology allows them to access police records on the move, meaning less time at the station and more time in the neighbourhoods, providing a better service to the public.

Wath Children’s officer Pc Craig White, said: “I am delighted that a pupil from this area has won the competition and I look forward to seeing the poster unveiled."

The launch is to take place next Monday at 2.20pm, outside Sandy Gate, Wath, Rotherham.