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Tendai Gukutikwa Mutare Correspondent
THIRTY-SIX members of the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) graduated with certificates in supervisory skills at Vumba Heights Training Centre last Friday.

During the training, the officers covered supervisory courses in line with the organisation’s vision to be the best service provider in SADC and beyond.

The course was meant to equip them with requisite knowledge and skills so that they become better ambassadors of the ZPCS. Deputy Commissioner-General Agrey Huggins Machingauta was guest of honour at the event.

Speaking during the graduation ceremony, the Deputy Commissioner General said the ZPCS’s deliberate effort was to create officers who were able and capable of delivering effective first level supervisory ethics and standards that are focused towards achieving their goals as an organisation.

“It is with this mind that as the ZPCS we remain committed to enhancing service delivery through extending appropriate training programmes to members and staff,” he said.

Dep Comm Gen Machingauta said it was because of that same reason that the course was specifically designed to address some performance gaps.

He also said that it remained everyone’s prerogative to assist and ensure that the officers were equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills that enhanced their day to day operations.

Said Dep Comm Gen Machingauta: “A strong base generally determines the strength of the whole structure, thus as trained supervisors, the graduates are an important arm to the organisation’s general output and outcome given that as supervisors they will be directly involved with the day to day operations on the ground.”

When the prison officers began their course in July, they totalled 40 but four of them dropped out along the way.