Online training for police by 2020

WESTERN BUREAU:

Starting next year, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will include online training and development as part of the ongoing efforts to modernise the organisation, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has said.

The promotion of online training courses is expected to reduce the frequency with which police officers have to leave any of the 186 stations to attend workshops in the Corporate Area, sometimes resulting in severe manpower shortages.

Anderson, who made the announcement during the first in a series of Commissioner’s Talk town-hall meetings in Falmouth recently, said the new training regime would result in citizens seeing better prepared and well-equipped police personnel providing them with security services.

“We are doing a lot of initiatives to make sure that not only do you have the numbers, but that the quality of our officers keeps going up through continual training and development,” said Anderson.