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142 Police Recruits Receive Certificate Commenced Field Training Wednesday

The NEWS (Monrovia)
NEWS
May 11, 2004
Posted to the web November 5, 2004

By Alloycious David
Monrovia
One hundred forty-two police recruits of the 3rd class of the new Liberia
Police Service Wednesday received certificates for completing an initial
academic training program prescribed by the International Police Service.
The police recruits include 125 men and 17 women. They have now commenced a
six-month field exercise in continuation of their training program.
The trainees will be attached to various police operational assignments during
their six-month field training, after which, they would return to the academy
for a month of consolidation and preparation for graduation.
At a program to mark the commencement of the six-month field training, Deputy
Police Director for Operation, Wongbay Sonkerlea commended the international
police for the training, but he also pointed out that the police needed to be
equipped with the requisite equipment to enable them perform up to the standard
excepted of them.
Also speaking at the event the spoke person of the class, Massah Bestman
cautioned her class to put the interest of the state ahead in the discharge of
their professional duty, "Adding that we have to do democratic policing".
At the program four trainees were awarded a special certificates in for their
outstanding academy performances and class leadership ability during the
training.

   

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