Police Citizens Youth Club

[2] 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, chess, and many other activities and hobbies.

The first PCYC was opened in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 1 April 1937 by the Police Commissioner, William John Mackay.

In 1936, Mackay visited England, Germany, Italy and the US with the brief of “reviewing the methods of combating crime”.

[4] He praised the Nazi labour youth battalions because, he said, they "subordinate the individual to the welfare of the nation".