The Russian Federation has pledged to continue providing training for members of the Guyana Police Force.
This was one of the matter discussed on February 29, 2016 when Russian Ambassador to Guyana Nikolay Smirnov met the Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan to discuss matters of mutual interest, a release from the Ministry of Home Affairs said yesterday.
Also present at the meeting was Coordinator of the Task Force on Narcotic Drugs and Illicit Weapons, Major General (Retired) Michael Atherly.
The release said that among the issues discussed was the signing of an agreement on co-operation Between the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Public Security. This Agreement will bolster the bilateral legal framework for interaction between law enforcement agencies of the two countries.
An earlier Agreement on narcotics traffic control with the Ministry of Public Security signed in Havana, Cuba in February 2012 was also considered to establish progress made in this regard.
The release said that the Russian side has expressed its willingness to continue providing courses for Guyanese police this year. One Police Sergeant has recently been admitted to the `Incident Site Inspection Finger-Printing Identification Programme’ to be held at Moscow University of the Ministry of Interior of Russia from March 28 – April 26, 2016. The recent abolition of the visa requirement between the two countries now enables easy travel of Guyanese policemen to Russia, the release said.
The release noted that the Russian Government has been facilitating training for Guyanese policemen over several years and intends to extend such training to programmes being done at the Regional Counter Drug Law-Enforcement Training Centre in Managua, Nicaragua and the Russian-Cuban Fire and Rescue Training Center in Havana.
The aim of this training is to strengthen the capacity of participants to fight illicit drug traffic and cope and recover from natural disasters, fires and other emergencies.
