Acting COP eyeing cadets & graduates to join RVIPF
This is an effort to recruit locally, he told this news agency in an exclusive interview last Friday, June 22, 2012.
“We are coordinating to try and get cadets in and certainly with the young people coming out of college,” Morris divulged. Over the past few months, he has publicly stated that there is a shortage of officers.
Another option for the acting COP is the students who are on attachment during the summer, and according to him, it is one area that has potential to bear fruit.
“In the United Kingdom they have job appreciation skills where the young people through the summer holidays come into the police force or Customs or wherever, they work and get paid. In my old force we used to have four to six young people working throughout the force in various areas. For me that should be developed through education as a summer programme for young people and I am more than willing to open the doors to the RVIPF to do that. Mr. Wade Smith said he would do it, Mr. Jennings said he would do it...the issue for me is, why are we driving it when the issue should be education wise in terms of supporting our young people,” he pointed out.
Meanwhile, the VI cadet corps, which has over 50 members, focuses on youth development based on “military type discipline” training. They go through various levels that give them the exposure to leadership and as they rise in the ranks, they are given more responsibilities to train the junior cadets that enter the programme, Captain Selwyn Rock, Commandant of Corps stated in a previous interview with this news agency.
Young persons, male or female, between the ages of eleven and nineteen years of age are eligible to join.
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