𝐅𝐂𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒

The Acting Commissioner of Corrections, Auta Moceisuva is in Hong Kong to attend the official opening of the Hong Kong International Correctional Services Response Tactics Training Academy. This strategic engagement is an initiative mooted to create a pathway that will see FCS officers receive training in Hong Kong.

In this occasion, the Acting Commissioner was present at the official opening ceremony of the facility on 27.1.26, which saw eight ( countries including Fiji from the Asia Pacific region participating in the training programme designed to improve the officers knowledge and skills in tactical operational response techniques.

The academy offers both theory and practice tactical training courses, including “Certificate in Safe and Effective Control Tactics”, “Certificate in Melee Prevention and Control”, and courses on prison police riot tactics. In addition to providing a variety of training facilities, the college also provides a real prison environment, so that domestic and overseas students can carry out training and practice what they have learned in close working settings.

The first batch of 29 students from the Mainland, Macau, Brunei, Fiji, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam have also arrived in Hong Kong for tactical exchange with the #Certification in Safe and Effective Control of Tactics course. The future college also plans to gradually introduce instructor courses, so that students can return to their institutions to provide relevant training to other personnel and enhance their professional standards after completing the course. (香港懲教署 Hong Kong Correctional Services)

There are currently four (4) officers from FCS on training at the new facility in Hong Kong and will return at the end of next week to form the core instructional cohort that would design and train the officers on different approaches to manage emergency situations and their response techniques.

The officers on this training are based at the Emergency Control Unit (ECU) and the Training Academy at Naboro.

The Acting Commissioner also had discussions with the Commissioner of the HK Correctional Services and senior officers on possible areas of collaboration to improve operational effciency and effectiveness of the FCS.

The Acting Commissioner said that, “through this cooperation with Hong Kong Correctional Services, it is recongnized that more opportunities for training to improve staff professionalism was possible on resource sharing basis”.

Acting Commissioner further said, “that such training will in turn fill the gap that existed in the current emergency response mechanism”. This area of improvement requires expertise that are aligned to international best practices in emergency response techniques.

The Acting Commissioner who is being accompanied by the Assistant Commissioner Administration, Rusiate Batiratu are expected to complete preplanned strategic engagements with their counterparts in Hong Kong before returning by the end of this week.