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Jul 06, 2008 News
Another team of British Police trainers is in the country to continue working with local operatives to bring them up to standard with international anti-crime operations.
The training will be focusing on ranks from the Police’s Tactical Services Unit, which will be expected to confront criminals in any given situation.
This is in keeping with establishing what many have been describing as a local SWAT team, something that has been long awaited.
Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene expressed thanks on behalf of the Force for the assistance given to the organization through the security sector reform programme.
“We’re looking forward to their bringing up our people, our tactical ranks, to the stage where we can involve ourselves in any operation, and involve ourselves well, so that we maintain the fact that we can face any group out there effectively and successfully, and we look forward to their help and their support in that respect,” Greene said.
Head of Police Operations, Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe, explained that this is the second phase of training for a special Police anti-crime unit, and it will focus mainly on training persons, who will then be required to train others within the local organization.
“They have come to continue the exercise, where they will be involved in tactical training with the ranks from the TSU. The plan at this stage is to train the ranks who are involved in training, so that when they (British) would have left, the people who would have been trained will continue to train those in the Force,” Slowe told this newspaper.
He stated that some aspects of the training are similar to those of a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit, since it is tactically oriented.
The British team will be in Guyana for a period of about three weeks, and according to Slowe, they will concentrate on the local trainers. It is the intention of the Guyana Police Force to have as many ranks as possible involved in the British training programme.
“They are doing some scoping and putting plans together…they are going to be starting very shortly,” Assistant Commissioner Slowe disclosed.
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