Get Dotted aims to help good relations

Police and Victim Support were on the streets of Balclutha and Milton yesterday promoting Get...
Police and Victim Support were on the streets of Balclutha and Milton yesterday promoting Get Dotted. Pictured are (from left) Bronwyn Chalmers, Nikki Wood from Victim Support, Constable Bernie Ingles, youth co-ordinator Awhina Deseymour and Sergeant Martin Bull. Photo by Rachel Taylor.
Police from Balclutha and Milton joined South Otago Victim Support and the Milton youth co-ordinator in dressing up as cats, covering themselves in dots and visiting 20 business in Milton and 15 in Balclutha to promote Get Dotted.

The Get Dotted programme was created by David Dickson, and aims to help people communicate by classifying them into four different personality types - red dots, blue dots, yellow dots and purple dots.

Sergeant Martin Bull, of Balclutha, said the programme helped people learn about themselves and their responses, as well as with understanding other people and their reactions.

"Nationally, violence figures are going up, and [South Otago] is no different," he said.

The Get Dotted show will be held in the Balclutha Memorial Hall on May 28, and is a fundraising event for a youth course.

Sgt Bull said the course would be offered to 15- and 16-year-olds as they went through school.

"It will give them tools to understand themselves and others, to try and prevent some of the conflict," he said.

The show will be presented by communications specialist Amy Scott.

Sgt Bull said it would be a great night out, especially for the parents of teenagers.

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