Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Fazil Karimbaksh is among four members of the Joint Services who have have been selected as part of the Police and Military training courses being offered by India under the Indian Technical and Economical Cooperation (ITEC) Programme.
The recipients are Guyana Police Force Assistant Commissioner Karimbaksh and from the Guyana Defence Force – Staff Sergeant Dork Pompey of Fellowship, West Coast Demerara; Sergeant Jamal Cambridge from Belladrum Village, West Coast Berbice and Corporal Dennis Pompey of Victoria, Georgetown, a release yesterday from the Indian High Commission said.
The three GDF officers were chosen to study a two-month General Intelligence and Security Course at the Military Intelligence Training School in Pune, Maharashtra. The Assistant Commissioner of the GPF will take a one-week course on Economic Offences at the premier Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. The four officers recently called on Dr KJ Srinivasa, Indian High Commissioner to Guyana where he briefed them on the courses, the ongoing partnership between India and Guyana and advised them on the details and logistics of these training programmes.
The ITEC programmes are short-term courses at prestigious institutions of India to selected partner countries across the world. In 2022 nineteen officers of the Guyana Defence Force were selected to study in India and for 2023, the Government of Guyana was allocated 46 slots of which seven have been used. The Guyana Police Force utilized seven slots last year and so far, three this year.
