190 Police Recruit to Undergo Training

In July, Close to two thousands hopefuls say the police recruitment exam. One hundred and ninety potential police officers were selected to be part of this year’s police recruitment process. Police Commissioner Chester Williams told the press on Monday that the recruits will join the police training academy in August and undergo a nine-month training. Williams says the training will be modeled based on what he saw in Jamaica. The potential police officers will participate in a three-month academic exercise after which they will be deployed to the field for six months. Based on their performance, Williams says, the participants will be chosen to be included in the commencement ceremony.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

Chester Williams

“The training for them will be three months. We are trying to replicate what we see in Jamaica where the recruits undergo training for three months and then they go out in the field to do to practical for another six months and they are recalled back to the academy to graduate based on their performance. We’ll see how that will work out for us. The lesson notes that we would normally teach the recruits is a three months lesson notes so we will be able to cover all the relevant areas that need to be covered within that three months period and then we will look at having the officers out in the field to do the practical aspect of training. We hope that the persons who will be selected will be persons who will be strong enough to not succumb to what they see senior members doing but I will like to add that when they leave the academy they go into the hands of a field training officers. Field training officers will then be the ones who will guide the recruits and these are officers who have been brought to academy and trained in the area of being a field training officer. In comes in line with what we try to do through the US embassy to ensure the officers even after leaving the academy continue to be relevant in terms of knowing what it is expected of them. And be trained in the practical aspect of policing so I do not see them working much with those officers that we would believe may what to taint their character.”