During the months of April and May, the training Unit from the Office of the Director of Public prosecutions, headed by Deputy Director, Dr. Angela Brooks and her team members, Senior Public Prosecutor Mrs. Shatelia Hall-Greene and Public Prosecutor Tamika Grant, partnered with the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force in providing essential training to the Enforcement Officers of the Physical Planning Department, both on Grand Turk and Providenciales.
The training exercises were focused on the offences that are captured in the Physical Planning Ordinance, providing the Enforcement officers with the tools necessary, thereby enabling and equipping them to execute their duties competently and effectively.
At the conclusion of the training sessions, the Enforcement Officers participated in an in person mock trial which replicated real life scenarios in the Magistrate Court. This exercise gave the Officers the opportunity to utilize all that they had learned during the training. The Deputy Director of the Physical Planning Department, Mr. Toriano Williams said that he was grateful for the training afforded to his Officers and has already witnessed an improvement in the number of tickets issued by his department.
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