Police training for security guards

Sub-inspector Barbe presents security guard Jean-Claude Samson with his certificate

A total of eight security guards from the Ministry of Education and Youth have successfully completed a week-long course on the maintenance of safety and security.

They received their certificates recently at the National Youth Hostel which is one of the institutions within which they help maintain security.

The training was conducted by four officials from the Seychelles Police. A similar course is expected to be run next year.

The youth hostel's management had requested the training as a means of further assisting and equipping the guards for their job of maintaining the safety of the students resident at the hostel.

"This should also further ease the minds of parents and give them greater confidence in the hostel as a whole," their trainers said during the ceremony.

According to one of the guards who participated in the training, Mr Lester Finon, the course has been a moral boost in their careers.

"In addition, it has made us more open-minded in our line of work and I am confident that we are now better able to handle any situation that may arise at the hostel or within the ministry's headquarters where we work," he said.

One resident of the hostel remarked that with such training, they feel more at ease knowing that they live in a safe environment.

It was Research Officer Raymond Louise and Sub-inspector Ted Barbe of the Seychelles Police Academy who presented the security guards with their certificates at the Anse Royale function.

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