Graduation ceremony to take place at Police Academy in Idrizovo
(OSCE)Police cadets throw their hats to celebrate their graduation from the Idrizovo Police School near Skopje. (OSCE) Photo details
SKOPJE, 29 April 2003 - The Ministry of Interior, in co-operation with the Police Development Unit of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, will host the fourth graduation ceremony at the Police Academy in Idrizovo on Wednesday.
The 285 cadets graduating tomorrow will bring the total number of cadets trained by the Ministry and the OSCE Mission to 811. This joint training programme is organized as required by Annex C of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which foresees the training and deployment of 1,000 non-majority police officers by July 2003.
The graduates of the 4th Course include 189 from the Albanian community, 6 Bosniaks, 10 Roma, 17 Turks, 4 Vlach and 8 Serbs, while the rest are Macedonians. Eleven per cent of all the graduates are women.
The Director of the OSCE Mission's Police Development Unit, Bart D'Hooge, said the course has been a success for various reasons, the most important one being the academic results of the students. "The average course result is around 72 per cent and the overall course failure rate is nine per cent, which is below the normal 10 per cent failure rate in other Police Academies in Europe," he said.
Having completed their basic training course at the Academy, the cadets will now undertake six months of field training while being constantly monitored and evaluated by senior field training instructors. The Field Training programme will prepare the cadets for the final State Exam.
The graduation ceremony will start at 09:30 on Wednesday, 30 April, and will be attended by representatives from the authorities, the international community, as well as by families and relatives of the graduates.
The 285 cadets graduating tomorrow will bring the total number of cadets trained by the Ministry and the OSCE Mission to 811. This joint training programme is organized as required by Annex C of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which foresees the training and deployment of 1,000 non-majority police officers by July 2003.
The graduates of the 4th Course include 189 from the Albanian community, 6 Bosniaks, 10 Roma, 17 Turks, 4 Vlach and 8 Serbs, while the rest are Macedonians. Eleven per cent of all the graduates are women.
The Director of the OSCE Mission's Police Development Unit, Bart D'Hooge, said the course has been a success for various reasons, the most important one being the academic results of the students. "The average course result is around 72 per cent and the overall course failure rate is nine per cent, which is below the normal 10 per cent failure rate in other Police Academies in Europe," he said.
Having completed their basic training course at the Academy, the cadets will now undertake six months of field training while being constantly monitored and evaluated by senior field training instructors. The Field Training programme will prepare the cadets for the final State Exam.
The graduation ceremony will start at 09:30 on Wednesday, 30 April, and will be attended by representatives from the authorities, the international community, as well as by families and relatives of the graduates.