Police recruits graduate after only five months’ training

The latest batch of Police recruits have graduated on Friday 4 January after having been trained for a total of five months, despite how police training courses normally last between nine months and a year, weekly sister newspaper Illum reports.

Illum reports how Police confirmed that the recruits were subject to an accelerated training course, but insisted that despite this, the quality of the training that the recruits received was not diminished in any way.

Police was also vague as to the precise reason why it was decided that the recruits would be rushed through training, only saying that it was due to "obvious reasons", ostensibly pointing to the approaching general election.

Police also did not reply to questions asking why recruit training could not have started earlier last year, instead of being condensed into a shorter timeframe.

Illum also reports that sources expressed concern at the accelerated training course that the recruits were exposed to.

The newspaper report quotes one particular source who maintained that the recruits which graduated yesterday were not given basic firearms or pepper spray handling training, and have covered only 50% of the normal police training curriculum.

Read more in the Sunday issue of Illum.