Metro Police trainees graduate and welcomed by COJ Mayor, MMC & MEC

The City of Johannesburg Executive Mayor Mpho Moerane along with MMC for Public Safety, Mally Mokoena and MEC for Community Safety Faith Mazibuko hosted the passing out parade for the remaining 2017 intake trainees on Wednesday, 12 October at Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec.

A total of 1109 Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers who graduated in 2019 were sent back for training as they were unable to perform some of their duties that they were trained for at college, these included handling firearms or directing traffic after 18 months of training.  These trainees had started their intense training in 2017 and ended in 2019.

A total of 409 trainees who graduated is the group which couldn’t finish training and never even passed out in 2019 as they had outstanding modules on RTMC programme and were supposed to do skills but the Academy  concentrated on the  retraining of the 1109 who were sent back.

The trainees stood on parade with full enthusiasm and dedication after successfully completing the intense and difficult theoretical and practical Basic Metropolitan Police training. 

Moerane congratulated them and expressed his gratitude that they are a group of determined individuals who  demonstrated that they do not mind a little delay to graduate just as long as they qualify all legal requirements to become officers.

 

Moerane proudly announced that the graduates are all young people and none of them were over the age of 35.

 

He explained that they should never again have a situation that they faced in the 2019 parade, and not just for the cameras where the trainees were not ready and legally qualified.

 

He added that graduating those not ready for graduation it devalues the esteem uniform and it erodes the confidence of the people in the law enforcement especially in the metro police

department.

 

“This is evident enough to show that we as a city are serious about youth employment, our youth should go and fight crime and we believe they will be successful,” ended Moerane.

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