12 Dec 2016

Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) director general, Ms Rose Seretse has implored strategic leadership programme graduates to apply and utilise knowledge they acquired during their 10-week training.

Giving a keynote address at the closing and awards ceremony at Phakalane Golf Estate last Friday, Ms Seretse said training was consistent with necessity to continuously develop the next generation of strategic leaders that would ensure realisation of organisational vision and mission.

The training, which was attended by various senior officers from law enforcement agencies including Namibia, was the 11th to be conducted by Botswana Police Service (BPS) at the Police College. The 10 graduates bring to 176 the total number of strategic leaders who have graduated from such course since its inception in 2005.

Ms Seretse noted that the programme was the highest in-service programme offered by the Police College designed to prepare senior law enforcement officers for strategic positions as well as capacitate them to become more courageous and visionary in their thinking and decision making.

Thus, she said core modules offered in the programme, which included personal and team leadership, organisational leadership, operational leadership and community leadership, were relevant and critical to the development of leaders operating within a law enforcement or security environment.

 

She further noted that in the changing environment of crime patterns, the country needed strategic leaders whose aim was to protect their citizens against criminals. She therefore congratulated BPS for having seen the need to develop the important training as well as ensuring its successful delivery over the years.

On the other hand, Ms Seretse told graduates that their different organisations nominated them for training on merit and trust and therefore they in turn expected high return on investment upon completion of the training in the form of immediate and full application of acquired skills, experiences and lessons learnt for overall service implementation.

In his welcome remarks, BPS deputy commissioner, Mr Tapudzani Gabolekwe thanked all stakeholders who immensely assisted in the development of the programme. Mr Gabolekwe said among such was the DCEC, which he said under Ms Seretse, had remained one of BPS’s key partner and stakeholder in the fight against crime.

He indicated that they continuously collaborate, exchange ideas and support each other towards effective delivery of their respective and complementary mandates. Mr Gabolekwe further noted that DCEC was also a standing beneficiary of the strategic leadership programme and believed a decision to continue sending officers for training was premised on the value-added of the course in advancing DCEC business.

Thus, he thanked course facilitators who diligently and ably imparted knowledge, understanding and skills to the course participants throughout the 10 weeks of training.

On the overview of the programme, one of the participants, a police commissioner in the Namibian Police Force, Mr Heinrich Tjivese said the course was an eye opener and that they had prepared their findings and resolutions which they code-named BELERUTWANE (a scary a terrifying animal) and was hopeful that the manuscript would be put to good use. ENDS