Event: Keep Safe Online – Cyber Events
Dates: Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2015
Times: 10am till 4pm each day 
Location: The Plaza, East Kilbride shopping centre 

Aim

To educate three key audiences on how to ‘keep safe online’ namely, young people, everyday online users and the elderly community. To date, Lanarkshire division have not held an event highlighting how to Keep People Safe online. 

Method 

The three target audiences will be educated through interactive workshops held within the shopping centres. These will be delivered by partner agencies including: 
	
•	Royal Bank of Scotland – focusing on online banking safety
•	Clydesdale Bank – focusing on online banking safety 
•	Barclays – focusing online banking safety and the ‘digital eagles literature’ 
•	Santander – online safety
•	KasperSky – online device security
•	Carphone Warehouse – mobile phone security
•	Universal Connections – youth online security social media
•	Police Scotland – Safer Communities – cyber crime trends
•	NHS Lanarkshire – Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 
•	Costa Coffee – supporting the event through donations
•	South Lanarkshire Council – library for elderly target group
•	Terminal One – youth oNline security social media

The event will open at 10am on Friday 18th September where the audience will include S1 pupils from Duncanrig Secondary School, community groups from across Lanarkshire, our local MSP Linda Fabiani and elected members. 
‘I’m Safe Online’ hand held flags will be distributed to the audience for photo opportunities and children will be issued with ‘I’m Safe Online’ wristbands to promote the internet safety message. 
Lanarkshire division will invite the audience to participate in workshops and will encourage people to use our ‘Safe Selfie’ tent which will be a gazebo with safety messages displayed within. The ‘Safe Selfie’ tent will educate the target audiences on how to ensure they are taking selfies safely and the effects of sending selfies to unknown sources. Following the launch of the selfie tent, Lanarkshire safer communities department will launch a game with selected members of the audience to find internet safety facts which will be hidden within a marked police vehicle. This will encourage and promote the 10 key internet safety facts which will be consistent throughout the campaign. In the afternoon, presentations will be delivered from our cyber crime communications team. To conclude on the first day of the campaign a physical demonstration to parents on how to set security settings on their children’s mobile devices will be delivered by Police Scotland's Lanarkshire Safer Communities' Officers. 
On Saturday 19th September, X Factor star, Nicky McDonald will open the event where he will perform four songs and address the audience outlining key internet safety messages. Nicky will interact with the audience and take part in the workshops and will be joined by Solar, our Police Scotland internet safety mascot. 

Solar will attract the younger audience we are reaching out to, following our internet safety Facebook campaign which had over 250,000 Facebook likes and over 2000 shares. Solar will be joined by Universal Connections ‘Boogie Bus’ which will encourage children to use the 3D TVs, iPads and games consoles, whilst learning about online safety. 

In the afternoon another presentation will be delivered from our cyber crime communications team and again we will hold an information presentation for parents. 
Evaluation
Evaluation on the success of the event will be measured through an online public consultation tool provided by NHS Lanarkshire. This will include asking the audience key questions on their knowledge after participating in the workshops.
Social media posts will also be evaluated through analysis of the number of people each post has reached. 

Media Coverage 
The event will be publicised by local and national media coverage including East Kilbride News and Clyde 1. Nicky McDonald will heavily promote the event on his social media pages and planned Facebook posts will be placed on the Lanarkshire and Police Scotland pages.
All major broadcasting organisations will receive a media invite one week before the event. STV Glasgow has already expressed an interest to attend the event. 

Contact Details 

PC Greg Roberton Q332
East Kilbride Police Office
Safer Communities Department 
Preventions and Interventions 
Internal Phone Number　– 784 4058
External Phone Number - 01355 564058
greg.roberton@scotland.pnn.police.uk