Assistant Police Commissioner of NCD, Anthony Wagambie Jnr, says he was impressed to see a lot of police officers graduate in various courses at Divine Word University yesterday.
“I’m quite impressed in the interest the police officers have shown in developing themselves.”
Wagambie, says most of the officers are self-sponsored, and had put in a lot of effort in furthering their studies.
“They made sacrifices’ like one of our young constable who paid his own way here to come and study.”
Wagambie is encouraging other police officers to also attend universities’, technical colleges and other institutions and must also be more involved in management training.
“We have to take that qualification and go out and serve the people otherwise this qualification is nothing. It must be used to serve others. Just achieving a diploma or degree is not worth anything if you can’t use it to serve others.”
But there is a need for more policemen and women to mix around with people from different walks of life.
“It makes us become more community oriented, so we can start to understand how the community is. Police we are in our little community by ourselves, that’s why most of our problems comes because we don’t understand how the public are for example for myself I have been studying with the different members of the public, civilians and I get a lot of feedback from them. So, I get to feel how they feel. “It’s not only going there for academic qualification but so that we can mix with the community and get to understand how people feel. How people perceive us the police.”
Mr Wagambie says he has seen the importance of studies and going back to school and more importantly interacting with different people outside of the police force.
“They’re also in a management role so we share our ideas and I get to see how the corporate sector works. They’ve got different ways of handling situation so now I’ve achieved this degree and am thinking of continuing.”
Anthony Gregory Wagambie Jnr did his grade 11 and 12 at to Divine word back when it was an institute.
While waiting for his results Wagambie also applied to join the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and joined the force despite being selected at Divine Word to further his studies.
“I joined the police force as an officer cadet and I came back as a police officer when the flexible learning came about that have an opportunity for people in the workforce to come and study so that the time RPNGC sponsored some of the officers and we came back.”
I was supposed to graduate early but I was a mobile squad and I was traveling a lot during the operations and I wasn’t really focusing on my studies so I delayed it for a while.
So, it took me bit of time and in 2007 I graduated with my diploma so after 2007 by then I was already a PPC so I was caught up with my work I never even thought of coming back and completing my degree program.”
The ACP for NCD was among 725 graduates of Divine Word University who graduated in various courses yesterday during the school’s 40th graduation ceremony.
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