Start of the renewed basic training for trainee inspectors

15 October 2015

On 1 October 2015, a new crop of 600 trainee inspectors started the thoroughly renewed basic training in the provincial police schools.

To promote this milestone in police training, Commissioner General Catherine De Bolle paid a visit on 15 October to one of the classes of the Limburg police school PLOT.

‘One of the new concepts of the renewed basic training for inspectors is dual apprenticeship. With this concept, we meet the demand from the field – more precisely the police zones and the federal entities where newly graduated inspectors start to work – to make training better correspond to daily practice’, said the Commissioner General. ‘And we pay even more explicit attention to the attitude of the trainees. Police officers are expected to display irreproachable and incorruptible behaviour at all times. Today, this is all the more important as our police officers come more and more in contact with people in a precarious situation. I am referring to the migration problem.’

Chief Inspector Christoph Ollivier, instructor at the Limburg police school PLOT, commented briefly on the dual apprenticeship system: ‘Each student can acquire experience in some 26 dual apprenticeship places. It is a trial and error concept: the student applies in the field what he has learnt at school and subsequently reflects on it again with instructors and fellow students at school.’

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