Ranks complete UK-sponsored strategic planning training course

Seated from left to right, the two trainers, Acting British High Commissioner Ron Rimmer, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine and Presidential Adviser on Security Sector Reform, Russell Combe. Standing are the Guyanese and Surinamese participants with their certificates yesterday.

Thirteen members of the Guyana Police Force and two members of the Surinamese Police Corps yesterday completed a two week capacity building training course in the area of strategic planning, sponsored by the United Kingdom (UK).

Speaking at the closing ceremony held yesterday afternoon at the Police Officers Training Centre, Eve Leary, Acting British High Commissioner, Ron Rimmer during his brief remarks said the course was designed to improve the capacity, capability and operational efficiency of the strategic planning unit of the Guyana Police Force, and to help provide the youths with some of the skills and expertise they will need as they seek to implement any recommendations to reform policing in Guyana.

Rimmer said the UK is keen on helping Guyana to ensure concrete tangible actions are taken during and following the ongoing UK sponsored security sector reform.

He noted that the training course