POLICE GRADUATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISCIPLINE OFFICERS TO MATCH UNITED NATIONS STANDARDS 200 police personnel attacked to the Operations Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leone Police have on Saturday 19th April 2014 graduated from a month long training course on Arms Control and Discipline at the Advance Public Order Training School formally called Camp Shekie, Kayankasa, Samu chiefdom in the Kambia district. Addressing the men, the Director of OSD, Assistant Inspector General of Police Mr. T.T. Kamara disclosed that the 200 OSD men have completed training on arms control and discipline in order to match up to United Nations Code and Professional Standards of the Sierra Leone Police. AIG Kamara said one of the major reasons for initiating the training was to basically instill discipline amongst the rank and file of the force. He highlighted teachings/learning materials, lack of bedding, poor infrastructure to house trainees and trainers, poor toilet and kitchen facility, lack of pavilion for major confabs, inadequate classrooms, lack of motivation for trainers among others, as some of the major constraints they are grappling with in the Samu OSD training school. He called attention of Government and Executive Management Board of Sierra Leone Police to pay great attention to the Training School in order for the OSD to produce professionals that will represent Sierra Leone abroad. AIG Kamara expressed disappointment over the duration of training given for OSD personnel which according to him is three months. The AIG said three months training for armed men of a police force like the SLP is not sufficient but as he put it “I accepted it following the inadequate resources in the country”. He lamented that, “What is more painful to me is that whenever personnel are sent for professional training to the Samu OSD training school to enhance their professional skills, especially OSD personnel that are dealing with arms and the public, they are always removed from the school for special operations for two or three weeks as the case maybe and at the end of it, the two or three weeks taken away from their training period will not be replenished.” He said most of the times those sent for those special duties missed out bulk of the training session and will leave the school with little or no knowledge in important sectors for which they were sent to the training school. AIG T.T. Kamara emphasized on the role of the Discipline Officers trained that they are responsible for discipline in the OSD and should behave responsibly if at all they should be looked at as serious people by their colleagues.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:17:04 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015