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    • London Mayor Sadiq Khan Rejects Met-Track For a Third Time
    • Gymnasium X Met-Track
    • Tashan Daniel 1999 - 2019
    • First Edition of Jack Petchey Achievement Awards with Met-Track
    • Charles Darwin Met-Track Participants Compete at West Kent Schools
    • MPS Commissioner Gives Met-Track Approval
    • Met-Track Official Launch Highlights Life Changing Impact
    • ​Seb' Coe to Head Guest List at Met-Track Launch
    • Scheme Director John Powell receives prestigious award for his years of voluntary work in the community
    • Role Models Whatever The Weather
    • TSG Workshop at Hammersmith SAFE CAMP
    • TSG Visit Helps Breakdown Young Peoples Perceptions
    • Great Atmosphere at Hammersmith Safe Camp
    • Met-Track Participants Inspired by Coaches London 2017 World Championships Ambitions
    • Met-Track Participants Go To The Races
    • Met-Track Participants Meet the Met's Finest
    • Met-Track's new Executive Board and Coaches Forum set the tone with clear direction for 2017
    • Met-Track coach Josh Swaray reports on TLG Awards Night
    • Met-Track looking forward to 2017
    • Revisiting Met-Track's source of inspiration 11 years on
    • Met-Track success story now graduating from university
    • Met-Track awarded prestigious 'Project Oracle' certification
    • Met-Track expansion on the horizon
    • 2016 on track to see biggest successes ever
    • Met-Track 10 Years On - Dwayne Grant
    • Met-Track 10 Years On - Jason Hussain
    • Scheme Director, John Powell MBE spoke out after the Paris atrocities
    • Latest Figures: 'Sensational success'
    • Bexley Sessions Start With Lots Of Interest
    • Met-Track Summer Squads
    • Met-Track Coaches In Action At UK Championships
    • Met-Track goes Global
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    • Barking
      • Eastbury Comprehensive School
    • Bexley
      • St Catherine's Catholic School For Girls
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      • Crystal Palace NSC
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Revisiting Met-Track's source of inspiration 11 years on

Met-Track Scheme Director and Founder, John Powell MBE, returned this week to the very source of the inspiration that had him devise Met-Track back in 2005 as a then London Police Superintendent.


He met with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in Downtown LA, who currently champion their Juvenile Impact Programme (JIP) - the scheme that John used as the initial template for Met-Track. Although a very different format to the London project, he emerged from the meting all smiles with several ideas to bring back for potential implementation at home.


"It was a really productive meeting," said John. "Our schemes are very different in format, but identical in terms of what we want to achieve, and many of the principles on which JIP operates illustrate common ground with Met-Track.


"In its infancy, the LA JIP was far more 'boot camp' style and there were a lot of aspects we couldn't have entertained back in London, but their reformatted version recently introduced had many parallels with what we seek to deliver.


"I had been back once already a few years ago with then Scheme Manager Jason Hussain, and we went into the programme in some depth over a number of days, but this single meeting was just as useful by way of update on where they are now. Both LA and London have common issues in providing for young people, and the fact that two cities can be drawn together in this way, I believe, is totally unique, and a process of which Met-Track should be very proud."


John was initially entertained in the downtown district of the city at the Police Station on East 6th Street, and was later able to visit the LAPD Academy - famous if nothing else, for its featuring in the initial Police Academy feature film.


John, Scheme Manager Matt' Threadgold, and the new Met-Track Executive Board will consider a full report put together by John upon his return to London next week.
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Met-Track Scheme Director, John Powell, meets Deputy Chief Commanding Officer Robert N. Arnos, of the LAPD Operations Department
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At the conclusion of his LAPD visit, time for a quick 'selfie' outside the LAPD Police Academy
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John was hosted by LAPD Juvenile Impact Programme Coordinator, PII Cintia Hernandes
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    • Statement From Met-Track CEO
    • MET-TRACK AND THE CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK
    • London Mayor Sadiq Khan Rejects Met-Track For a Third Time
    • Gymnasium X Met-Track
    • Tashan Daniel 1999 - 2019
    • First Edition of Jack Petchey Achievement Awards with Met-Track
    • Charles Darwin Met-Track Participants Compete at West Kent Schools
    • MPS Commissioner Gives Met-Track Approval
    • Met-Track Official Launch Highlights Life Changing Impact
    • ​Seb' Coe to Head Guest List at Met-Track Launch
    • Scheme Director John Powell receives prestigious award for his years of voluntary work in the community
    • Role Models Whatever The Weather
    • TSG Workshop at Hammersmith SAFE CAMP
    • TSG Visit Helps Breakdown Young Peoples Perceptions
    • Great Atmosphere at Hammersmith Safe Camp
    • Met-Track Participants Inspired by Coaches London 2017 World Championships Ambitions
    • Met-Track Participants Go To The Races
    • Met-Track Participants Meet the Met's Finest
    • Met-Track's new Executive Board and Coaches Forum set the tone with clear direction for 2017
    • Met-Track coach Josh Swaray reports on TLG Awards Night
    • Met-Track looking forward to 2017
    • Revisiting Met-Track's source of inspiration 11 years on
    • Met-Track success story now graduating from university
    • Met-Track awarded prestigious 'Project Oracle' certification
    • Met-Track expansion on the horizon
    • 2016 on track to see biggest successes ever
    • Met-Track 10 Years On - Dwayne Grant
    • Met-Track 10 Years On - Jason Hussain
    • Scheme Director, John Powell MBE spoke out after the Paris atrocities
    • Latest Figures: 'Sensational success'
    • Bexley Sessions Start With Lots Of Interest
    • Met-Track Summer Squads
    • Met-Track Coaches In Action At UK Championships
    • Met-Track goes Global
  • Local Squads
    • Barking
      • Eastbury Comprehensive School
    • Bexley
      • St Catherine's Catholic School For Girls
    • Bromley
      • Charles Darwin Academy
      • Kingswood PRU
    • Croydon
      • Crystal Palace NSC
    • Ealing
      • Dormers Well Junior School
      • Perivale Athletics Track
    • Enfield
      • Bishop Stopford School
    • Greenwich
      • Woolwich Polytechnic School
    • Hammersmith
      • TLG West
      • Wood Lane Community Centre
    • Lambeth
      • Evelyn Grace Academy
    • Lewisham
      • Crystal Palace NSC
    • Redbridge
      • Jack Carter Centre
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    • Wandsworth
      • Nightingale School
    • Westminster
      • Paddington Recreation Ground
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      • Brandon Murray
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      • Daniel Bramble
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      • JJ Jegede
      • Josh Swaray
      • Kola Adedoyin
      • Leevan Yearwood
      • Mark Awanah
      • Martyn Bernard
      • Michael Puplampu
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