Police and Community Youth Club

Police & Community Youth Clubs (PCYC) or Police and Community Youth Clubs are a network of Australian non-profit, community organisations, founded in New South Wales. In some states such as NSW, they are constituted as an Incorporated Association.

The Mission of PCYC is to get young people active in life; develop their skills, character and leadership; and prevent and reduce crime by and against young people. The organisation is community-based and involves the provision of low-cost structured activities to children and adults, aimed specifically at the underprivileged persons in the community. The clubs contain a wide variety of sports such as basketball, indoor soccer, weightlifting gyms, dancing, wrestling/grappling, boxing, martial arts and many other activities and hobbies. Different clubs may have different activities going on to one another.

The first PCYC was opened in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 1 April 1937 by the Police Commissioner, William John Mackay. They were originally known as the "Police Rotary Youth Club", and later, "Police Boy's Clubs".

In 1936, William visiting Englang, German, Italy and the US with the brief of “reviewing the methods of combating crime”. Upon returning to Australia, he garnered the support of the Rotary Clubs in Australia, who provided financial report.

The Red Flag reports that they were modelled on the Nazi labour youth battalions, which William admired because they “subordinate the individual to the welfare of the nation”.

Name & locations of PCYC's in each state:

Branches include:

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