Basic police training course begins at Police Academy in Idrizovo
(OSCE/Marko Georgiev)The recruitment and training of 1,000 police cadets by July 2003 was a key target of the August 2001 Ohrid Agreement and an important part of the work of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. (OSCE/Marko Georgiev) Photo details
SKOPJE, 5 April 2004 - The sixth Basic Police Training course at the Police Academy in Idrizovo, organized by the Ministry of Interior in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Skopje, began today.
The joint training is organized as required by Annex C of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which calls for the police services to "generally reflect the composition and distribution of the population". The 335 cadets enrolled in this course represent different ethnic communities out of which 41 are ethnic Macedonian, 280 are ethnic Albanian and 14 are from other minorities. Female cadets represent 12 percent of the total.
Ambassador Carlos Pais, Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, said that "the commencement of today's Basic Training Course is another step towards full implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The OSCE looks forward to working with the Government authorities in this endeavour to provide training to multi-ethnic cadets that meet the high standards of European policing. "
In line with the new Law on the Police Academy, the duration of the training will be expanded to 12 months: nine months of classroom training followed by three months of field training.
The classroom training will be conducted by instructors from the Police Academy and the OSCE. Cadets will study a number of different topics including: community policing, democratic policing, preventing crimes against the environment, psychology of personality, general laws, police ethics, road traffic security and human rights and freedoms.
The joint training is organized as required by Annex C of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which calls for the police services to "generally reflect the composition and distribution of the population". The 335 cadets enrolled in this course represent different ethnic communities out of which 41 are ethnic Macedonian, 280 are ethnic Albanian and 14 are from other minorities. Female cadets represent 12 percent of the total.
Ambassador Carlos Pais, Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, said that "the commencement of today's Basic Training Course is another step towards full implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The OSCE looks forward to working with the Government authorities in this endeavour to provide training to multi-ethnic cadets that meet the high standards of European policing. "
In line with the new Law on the Police Academy, the duration of the training will be expanded to 12 months: nine months of classroom training followed by three months of field training.
The classroom training will be conducted by instructors from the Police Academy and the OSCE. Cadets will study a number of different topics including: community policing, democratic policing, preventing crimes against the environment, psychology of personality, general laws, police ethics, road traffic security and human rights and freedoms.