Providing manpower needs to the Home Team

Providing manpower needs to the Home Team

Diploma/Advance Diploma in Law Enforcement. In addition to recruiting graduands from the ITE/Polytechnics into the police force, why not train police force recruits right from the time they enter tertiary technical institutions?! The three/four years of full time academic study plus practical training allow the police academy to expand the training curriculum and equipped the future law enforcer to be more steady as their training stint extend from six months to three/four years! Earn-as-you-learn scheme with a three/four year bond upon graduation (Two years of full-time NS is counted with the bond period, should the candidate break bond, he will still be liable to serve the two years of NS and the bond breaker may be deployed out of the home team dependant on national manpower needs).

Physical fitness occupy an important portion of the curricular, contributing to as much as forty percent of the course credit modules. Bringing physical education on par with the traditional academic subjects is long overdue, a neglected vital part of human development. Yes, even the IPPT (Individual Physical Proficiency Test) is a credit module! Unarmed Combat module. Weapons module. First Aid/CPR certification modules, etc. on top of the other academic and law enforcement studies.

Work attachments deployment of student cadets mostly into neighbourhood police centres. The practicum attachment with the police force will only start in their third year when they are older and have received long enough periods of physical training.

With a three/four years of full time training calendar, the police cadet can be exposed to the basics of almost the full spectrum of the police branches. Policing with the neighbourhood centres exposed the trainees to general police procedures. The ITE/polytechnics health sciences department can conduct rudimentary credit modules to acquaint them with anatomic/physiologic terms when assisting the coroner in their evidence gathering protocol involving unnatural death cases. Attachment credit module with the special operations command in riot squad basic form up and tactics. CCTV operations and technology modules conducted by the engineering/media departments. Basics of building fire alarm systems and elevator operations, acquaint with building blue-print layout and familiar with the building management system in the facilities control room modules conducted by lecturers from the civil/building departments. etc ...      

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29 March 2014