Seven Join Bermuda Reserve Police
At a 7pm ceremony attended by family, friends and colleagues held at Police Headquarters in Prospect Devonshire on Wednesday, March 7th, seven recruits joined the Bermuda Reserve Police as Reserve Constables. The six men and one woman were sworn in by Reserve Deputy Commandant Cannoth Roberts.
Reserve Superintendent Sandra Robinson and Reserve Chief Inspector Arnim Donawa were also in attendance to assist with the ceremony, as well as Inspector Charlene Thompson, Officer in Charge of Training School. The four experienced officers commended all seven for choosing to serve the Bermuda community.
The new officers are Reserve Constable 1495 Ronald Bell, Reserve Constable 1497 Augusto Arrate, Reserve Constable 1498 Dragon Pavkovic, Reserve Constable 1499 Franklyn Foggo, Reserve Constable 1500 Laura Blyden, Reserve Constable 1501 Robert Sousa and Reserve Constable 1502 Mark Raposo.
The 15 week Bermuda Reserve Police training course was conducted by the Training School team of Sergeant Ronald Taylor, Sergeant Larry Dean and Sergeant Paul Watson. Detective Constable Derek Golding also assisted with the Reserve Constables’ training regarding officer safety.
The Commissioner of Police as well as the Commandant of the Reserve Police congratulated the most recent Reserve Constables on successfully completing their training and welcome them to the Bermuda Reserve Police.
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There should be a fitness requirement for Police officers, reserve or not.
Be quiet about fitness level. Why dont you apply and see if pass the inteligence test first??? Congratulations- Moms is proud of all of you.
* shd say – if YOU can pass the inteligence test.
There is a fitness requirement for all officers so clearly these new officers can run as fast as your mouth runs with no thought process behind it as they have completed their training. Instead of offering your tarnished two cent opinion, go get some knowledge first before you speak.
Congratulations to the new officers,
But I have the same concerns as the above mentioned. FITNESS, because when I first looked at the photo, no disrespect but it is very noticeable due to the situations the police are dealing with now. It seems that this generation is runners, whether on foot or vehicles. No disrespect but the facts are right in front of our eyes.
Good luck & I hope you don’t have to go thru the chasing process until you have had enough experience to help you along with this challenge. MAY JAH BE YOUR GUIDE
You seem to think that it is obvious by what you notice that these officers are not fit.However don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Those recruits have to do the same training as regular officers including an intelligence test. I know for a fact that there are many who are LESS noticeably fit that did not pass the test. As for the running after crimninals all officers have to decide if it is in their best interest whether they are marathon runners or not to chase criminals especially in areas of the unknown. With all the guns and weapons that criminals are using they have to be wise, hence intelligence is involved. These recruits as stated before are putting their lives and the lives of their families on the line, so koodos for them for deciding to give back in such a time as this.
Yes, wouldn’t it be nice if they were all olympic hopefuls, but they are not. They are regular people with fulltime jobs who are doing something extra for their community.
Congratulations to all.
I understand that, but things happen and in that field I find fitness is vital asset. Just like they say: accidents do happen and nobody plans them. Things happen!!
See you at the TOP….
We all have the right for an opinion. Congratulations to these citizens, regular civilians who want to return some of the benefits of the society where they and their families live to assist other citizens and members of their comunitites. As far a fitness it might appear that few not all, don’t look like marathon runners, if any; but I know for sure that at least one of them is a soccer player and currently the coach for the Onions Flanagan. God help them and Bermuda as a highly respectable country.