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Class 11 graduates from OSCE Kosovo Police Service School
PRISTINA 15 December 2000
PRISTINA, 15 December 2000 - The eleventh class of police cadets graduates from the OSCE-run Kosovo Police Service School this Saturday, 16 December 2000.
They bring to 2,851 the total number of trainee police officers who will have successfully graduated from the school's 8-week long basic training course since it opened last year.
Class 11 consists of 312 cadets of whom 45 represent minority communities in Kosovo. A total of 59 of the group are women. The cadets will now go on to spend a further 19 weeks of in-service training with UNMiK Police and an additional 80 hours of classroom tuition provided by OSCE police instructors at regional training centres around Kosovo.
Meanwhile, the Kosovo Police Service School has developed and is concluding a First Line Supervisor Course for selected Kosovo Police Service (KPS) officers to function as police managers. Upon completion of the course these officers are added to a pool of possible supervisors for the KPS. To date, six courses of 99 KPS officers have graduated from the First Line Supervisor Course.
As part of its mandate, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is aiming to provide democratically-oriented basic police training for at least 4,000 locally recruited police officers.
The media are kindly invited to attend the graduation ceremony
Time: 10:30 hours
Date: Saturday 16 December 2000
Venue: Sports Centre, University of Pristina
For further information, contact the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Press Office, tel.: (+381-38) 500-162 or satphone: 871-762-009-948, ext. 260 e-mail: press@omik.org or website: /kosovo
They bring to 2,851 the total number of trainee police officers who will have successfully graduated from the school's 8-week long basic training course since it opened last year.
Class 11 consists of 312 cadets of whom 45 represent minority communities in Kosovo. A total of 59 of the group are women. The cadets will now go on to spend a further 19 weeks of in-service training with UNMiK Police and an additional 80 hours of classroom tuition provided by OSCE police instructors at regional training centres around Kosovo.
Meanwhile, the Kosovo Police Service School has developed and is concluding a First Line Supervisor Course for selected Kosovo Police Service (KPS) officers to function as police managers. Upon completion of the course these officers are added to a pool of possible supervisors for the KPS. To date, six courses of 99 KPS officers have graduated from the First Line Supervisor Course.
As part of its mandate, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is aiming to provide democratically-oriented basic police training for at least 4,000 locally recruited police officers.
The media are kindly invited to attend the graduation ceremony
Time: 10:30 hours
Date: Saturday 16 December 2000
Venue: Sports Centre, University of Pristina
For further information, contact the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Press Office, tel.: (+381-38) 500-162 or satphone: 871-762-009-948, ext. 260 e-mail: press@omik.org or website: /kosovo