Police Citizens Youth Club

Established in 1948, Police-Citizens Youth Clubs Queensland (PCYC Queensland) is a not-for-profit organisation with 54 Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYCs) across Queensland. These include six First Nations PCYCs in remote communities: Napranum, Aurukun, Yarrabah, Doomadgee, Palm Island and Mornington Island.

All PCYCs have a Queensland Police Service (QPS) police sergeant on site delivering crime prevention and community engagement programs. This encourages positive relationships in the community and fosters unique interactions and experiences between QPS officers and young Queenslanders.

PCYC programs and activities include:

• After Dark – a free, after-hours, sport-based activity program for people aged 12-18 who may be disengaged from community, family or school. The program is designed to empower young people by improving physical health and wellbeing, emotional resilience, self-esteem and confidence, using sport in a safe and structured peer environment.
• Drop In – an initiative to keep young people off the streets and give them a safe place to associate. ‘Drop In’ creates a space for youth workers and local police to get to know young people, build a rapport and discuss issues or problems that may be affecting them. Each club’s ‘Drop In’ has different activities such as board games, pool, free wi-fi, card games, video games, air hockey, movies, table tennis, chill-out lounges etc.
• Rise Up Be Yourself (RUBY) for women affected by domestic and family violence to build physical strength and confidence.  All programs have an attending female police officer who offers advice about court processes and helps link women to other support agencies.
• Braking the Cycle (BTC) – a driver mentor program to support young people who, due to financial hardship or social barriers, may otherwise be unable to complete their 100 hours of driving required to obtain a licence, often required for jobseekers.
• Deep Blue Line – a mentoring program for disengaged youth, led by police officers focusing on life-skills sessions and interactions with mentors. Key learning areas are communication, wellbeing and positive futures.

More than 70 QPS officers and eight Police Liaison Officers (PLOs) work with PCYC to partner, mentor and inspire young people. They work together to reduce youth offending and build cohesive, resilient communities.

Our crime prevention and youth development programs help more than 50,000 young Queenslanders each year to make positive life choices so they can be the best they can be. 

More information about PCYC Queensland programs and activities 

To contact the State Coordinator for PCYC, please email PCYC.StateCoordinator@police.qld.gov.au