In associaton with the Regional Police Training Centre (RPTC) and the Barbados Community College, police officers will have an opportunity to pursue an associate degree that can be used throughout the Caribbean as part of their academic profile.
This was revealed yesterday by Commandant of the RPTC, Eucklyn Thompson, following an address at the Regional Security System’s (RSS) Basic Course at Paragon, Christ Church.
He said the programme would be starting in June and was on law enforcement. It could equip officers to go on to take a degree and would enhance the RPTC’s certificate normally given after the recruit passed out from the centre, according to Thompson.
“Now you would have greater emphasis placed on it through the association with the Community College,” he noted.
Thompson is hoping that the RPTC would be upgraded to a college, something mooted in the 1970s, before he became commandant. He said he would like to see the centre become an institution of training much more than being an agency that dealt with recruits.
Thompson said it would also help the officers to feel more comfortable where they could study at their own institution.
Here from left, Charles Hillyer, political officer, Narcotics Affairs Section of the United States Embassy, Superintendent Nicholas George, Commandant of the Regional Police Training Centre, Eucklyn Thompson, Warrant Officer Class 1 Sherrol Deane and Robert McDonald, Narcotics Section of the United States Embassy, at Paragon yesterday.
