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On Wednesday, April 29th 2009 the Urban Blue bus was launched - Maidstone's newest weapon in its fight to make the town the safest and best nightspot in the county.
Urban Blue, a name picked by students at Cornwallis Academy, is a double decker that has been transformed into a community bus.
By day the bus, which has an area with 16 seats and a video screen, will travel around schools and other organisations to educate on a range of subjects from teenage pregnancies to drug awareness.
It also has an onboard medical area to treat minor injuries, so the bus could be used at concerts and public events or even deployed to major incidents.
On Saturday nights the bus is parked in the town centre with the hope of relieving stress and pressure on the ambulance and A&E service.
'I am delighted that Maidstone has this superb new facility at its disposal and it's been an excellent example of how partnership working can translate into real action and real outcomes. This will make key services more accessible to the public, with capability on board the bus to administer medical attention, to provide advice and counselling or even conduct presentations via a large TV screen.
The bus also compliments the work our officers and other schemes are doing, such as the upgrading of our CCTV systems and the Street Pastors initiative, to make the streets of Maidstone an even safer place to live, work and socialise.'
- Chief Superintendent Alasdair Hope, Area Commander for Mid Kent Police
