Recruiting police and prison
officers high on Security Plan
PHILIPSBURG--Justice Minister of the Netherlands Antilles David Dick says the recruitment of new officers for both police and the prisons is a high priority for his new Security Plan.
Dick stated during a press conference at the Philipsburg police station on Monday that measures were being taken to deal with the issue of recruiting persons who are otherwise highly qualified for the task of becoming police officers, but may not be able to write or speak the Dutch language very well.
He mentioned that Police Chief Commissioner of the Windward Islands Derrick Holiday had travelled with a delegation to the Netherlands recently and engaged in fruitful discussions on training and further development of police officers, as well as the issue of improving the functioning of the Judicial Chain.
Holiday said that the trip had been motivated primarily by the move for Separate Status. He said the delegation, which consisted of other officers from within the Netherlands Antilles, had visited the Ministry of Interior Affairs, where improvement of the method of training Antillean police officers at the Police Academy in Curaçao had been discussed in the presence of the Director of the Academy in Curaçao.
He said the exchange of police officers had been further discussed, but stated that he could not give more details of the progress made during the trip until he had formally presented his findings to Minister Dick.
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