by the City of Calgary
Make sure your child knows:
• Their full name, age, address, area code, home phone number, and parents’ work/cell phone number.
• How to use a pay phone to make both local and long-distance phone calls.
• How to contact police, fire and EMS in an emergency (9-1-1) and in a non-emergency (403-266-1234).
• To use the same route to and from school.
• Where the safe places are to play (front and backyards, playgrounds).
• What places to avoid (vacant lots, dark, wooded, bushy areas).
If your child is being followed by a person or car, make sure they know to do the following:
• Turn and run in the opposite direction.
• Get a description and licence number of the stranger’s vehicle if possible.
• Run to the closest safe place; and,
• Dtay in open areas that are visible.
• Remember to tell them that uniformed police officers are friends who can be trusted.
The Stranger Rules
Familiarize your child with “the stranger rules” – these rules will help keep them safe.
• Never talk to strangers.
• Never take anything from strangers.
• Never go anywhere with a stranger.
• Do not be fooled by tricks or phoney conversation.
• If a stranger tries to grab you, yell, scream and kick.
• Never tell a stranger you are by yourself or that your parents or guardian are not home.
Click here to the Cougar Ridge Community News home page for the latest Cougar Ridge community updates.
Click here to the West Springs Community News home page for the latest West Springs community updates.
