Nursery children learned what life as a police officer entails when they received a special visit from officers.

Youngsters at Docklands Day Nursery in Leytonstone welcomed PCs Matt Williams, Nathan Thomas and Mehmet Akdeniz from Chingford police station to their classroom on Friday (October 20).

The officers spoke to the children about the different roles units such as mounted police and motorbike police play.

The children were able to try on different pieces of uniform and sit in the driver’s seat of a police mini bus.

The visit was organised as part of the nursery’s celebration of Black History Month.

Docklands manager, Zara Habib, said: “The children loved listening to Matt who spoke to the about the different roles of the police and what they did in their job.

“They loved the minibus with them being able to make the lights fllash and the siren go off.”