When it comes to police statistics, the number of cards received at Christmas would not be listed on most performance tables. But for PC Mike Ward, the pile of cards on his desk is a measure of the success of a scheme that made him Parklands High School's first bobby.
Parklands is in the heart of Speke in Liverpool and, much to the annoyance of many people living there, is tagged as the "second poorest area in the country". At Parklands, which takes in virtually all secondary-age children in the area, more than 60 per cent of pupils claim free school meals. And, as school staff admit, a jolly festive greeting is the last thing many people in Speke would want to give a police officer.
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