Police look at policy implementation in five-day training |07 February 2024

Police officers and civilians during one of the sessions (Photo: Contributed)

The Seychelles Police Force introduced a policy development, and effective policy implementation and monitoring programme in 2023 to which they are moving forward with their second cohort this year.

The delegates started their training on Monday with facilitator Dr Sherley Marie from The Guy Morel Institute.

There are 16 of them comprising 14 officers and two civilians, namely the financial controller and one legal officer within the police force. They were selected based on their involvement with the development of the policy.

Seychelles NATION spoke to the head of the ongoing programme, Natasha Derjaques who also heads the compliance unit, which oversees the implementation component within the force to ensure it is working properly.

Ms Derjaques gave examples of some policies that will be addressed during this training. “Some of the policies that we have in writing are the transport allowance policy, recruitment policy along with a uniform policy,” said Ms Derjacques.

She also shared that the police force have a programme termed the strategic review that focuses on different pillars. “Because of this, we are training our members on how to go about this strategic review to better implement the policies,” shared Ms Derjacques.

She added that the cohort, however, is still in the development stage.

Following this five-day training the team will be devising an implementation work plan.

According to Ms Derjacques, they will be meeting up on Tuesday next week to start devising the implementation framework, and monitoring component which will eventually be shared with all officers, as they go along.

Kassey Govinden