Regional Police Training Centre doing excellent work

THE Regional Police Training Centre (RPTC), from June 2016 to present, conducted 29 courses and workshops in different disciplines, training law enforcement officers and civilians from 12 police forces and four Non-Governmental Organisations across the region.

A total of 563 persons were trained at the centre.

RPTC’s Commandant Sylvester Louis boasted about this accomplishment last week, as he delivered remarks at the 140th Passing Out Parade for recruits from the Royal Barbados Police Force.

Louis said the focus has been on building the region’s crime management capacity; hence, the last detective school which took shape last year is being fully utilized.

In fact, he said the number of admissions had to be reduced from around the region due to the demand.

“I am of the view that continuous training and retraining of crime fighters from across the Caribbean will reap great benefits to its citizenry.”

“... The networking and linkages broached would allow officers to circumvent the dreaded bureaucracy that sometimes negatively affects the investigation of national transitional or borderless crime.”

“In addition, to help fortify our porous borders and make our enforcement capacity more elastic, we provided training for immigration officers, court marshals and custom officers,” he said.

The Commandant also stated that the RPTC has been carrying out its social responsibility as a community-oriented institution, noting that many organisations and persons benefitted from the free usage of the Centre’s shooting range, gym, playing field and other facilities.

“My utterances suggest that we have had some successes and whereas I fully accept full responsibility for all our failures, I wish to publicly thank all those persons and organisations who contributed to our success,” he said. (AH)