The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, led the graduation ceremony for police officers trained, for the first time, in the Penitentiary Training Center, who will work in Unit No. 4 of Santiago Vázquez. More than 300 vacancies in units for persons deprived of liberty will be filled by graduates. The generation of received agents was named “Minister of the Interior, Dr. Jorge Larrañaga”.
The act, this Thursday 21, was also witnessed by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres; the director of the National Rehabilitation Institute (INR), Luis Mendoza; the head of Citizen Coexistence of the Ministry of the Interior, Santiago González; members of the Prison Monitoring Commission, those responsible for penitentiary establishments and relatives of the graduates.
Heber stressed that it is the first class of police officers trained at the Penitentiary Training Center (Cefopen), which worked with the National Directorate of Police Education.
“It is a change of modality”, he pointed out. He also considered that the specific training allows the agents to have the necessary values for dealing with people deprived of liberty, and emphasized: “We need specialized officials committed to the objectives of the INR.”
Mendoza, meanwhile, recalled that Uruguay chairs, through Cefopen, the Network of Penitentiary Academies of America and Europe, made up of some 20 countries.
“Personnel training is the way to make the changes we want. Only with a staff that is permanently trained will we be prepared to change the system”, she stressed.
On the other hand, he agreed with the minister: “We need committed police officers, with a vocation for service and who accompany the objectives of the INR: rehabilitate and give opportunity to people deprived of liberty”
Some 350 INR vacancies will be filled by police officers graduating this year; They will perform functions in the metropolitan and coastal areas of the country. Presidency
