09th March 2010
58 New Police officers
Stan Bishop

Nearly one hundred young men amd women graduated from the RSLPF Police Academy last Friday afternoon, adding to the human resource element of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force.
The ninety-eight new officers – fifty-eight police officers and forty correctional officers – formed part of the RSLPF’s Course 30 Passing Out Parade Certificate and Award Ceremony held at the Academy, at La Toc.
The new officers underwent twenty-three weeks of rigorous physical training at the academy beginning last August and received course training from Monroe College, through Mr. Ramesh Sinanan and Jerry George. As part of their rewards, each graduate received thirty-six transfer college credits from Monroe College.
Commissioner of Police, Ausbert Regis, congratulated the new officers but cautioned them not to lose track of the tasks before them.
“As probationers, you will be under the microscope for another two years,” Regis said, following which he read Section 17 of the Police Act.
Regis also told the new officers that their performance levels were admirable and that he looked forward to brighter things for their careers.
“I have no doubt that given your performance over the period and the potential that you have shown, you will live up to the task,” Regis told the graduates. “I take confidence that when I retire, I will leave the Roayl St. Lucia Police Force in the hands of competent men and women who can protect me in my latter years so that I wouldn’t have to call different talk shows complaining about the police.
“We are seeing a new breed of criminals. Criminals that persons like me did not experience in our formative years in the Force. However, I am confident that you, being that new breed of police officer, you are up to the task and you will overcome the challenges that the new breed of criminals are posing to our society. The future of the Force rests on your shoulders.”