Othón P. Blanco, Q.R. — State officials are training more than 200 police in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco. The courses are being taught to active officers and potential candidates. Executive Secretariat of the State Citizen Security System (SESESC) started the training and professionalization courses Monday.
The training is being done in coordination with the Sinaloa State Police University for candidates and members assigned to the municipal Secretary of Citizen Security (SSC).
SESESC leader Adrián Martínez Ortega said the goal is to strengthen initial and ongoing training for the development of skills and competencies as well as to maintain a gender perspective and full respect for human rights.
He said three courses are being offered. Initial Training (applicants), which will consist of 1,080 hours and last 20 weeks, Initial Training (active employees), which will consist of 540 hours, approximately 10 weeks and Continuing Education, which will last 220 hours (four weeks).
Officers from the municipality of Othón P. Blanco began the course Monday. Martinez Ortega says a total of 237 members from six municipalities will participate. They include officers from Bacalar, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Puerto Morelos, Isla Mujeres and Lázaro Cárdenas.
The training and professionalization courses are being taught by Noe Castellón Cova, a graduate in Criminology and Basic Skills Evaluator at the Sinaloa State Police University (UNIPOL).
The courses are being provided through the Public Security Contributions Fund (FASP) and the Fund for the Strengthening of Public Security Institutions (FOFISP), within the framework of the National Police and Civic Justice Model and the Professionalization Master Program.
Among the main objectives of the training is to standardize the training of future community police officers in knowledge, skills, techniques and tactics focused on community outreach and civic justice.
The program also seeks to instill values of discipline, loyalty, ethics and justice, as well as to provide community police officers with knowledge, skills, and techniques for development, he said.
Officers will also learn physical conditioning and self-defense, police weapons and shooting, driving police vehicles, arresting and transporting people, handling the PR-24 baton, operating radio communication equipment, and first responder skills.
