Minister for Police Mark Ryan and Commissioner Ian Stewart welcomed 70 new police officers and two new police dogs (PDs) to the Queensland Police Service (QPS) after a graduation ceremony was held at the QPS Academy, Oxley campus yesterday.
Graduating as First Year Constables (FYC), the new officers completed 25 weeks of intensive training.
The recruit training program aims to provide recruits with a quality foundation so that they can deliver an excellent service to the community and ensure their policing skills have developed to a level necessary for operational policing as First Year Constables under supervision.
Of the 70 officers, 19 are graduates of the third Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Recruit Preparatory Program. This is a 10 week preparatory training program targeting recruit applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to prepare them for mainstream recruit training. This program is undertaken prior to commencement of the mainstream Recruit Training Program.
Minister Ryan congratulated the
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