President Oscar Arias touted steps forward in his ambitious promise to train and hire 4,000 new police officers during his four-year administration during a police academy ceremony yesterday at Parque de La Paz, in southern of San José.
Together with top administration officials, the President saluted a new class of 1,069 trainees, some of whom were sworn in yesterday, and others of whom are scheduled to graduate from their four-month training course by October.
The Arias administration is trying to live up to its daunting promise of expanding the police force and training at least half of the existing officers – a whopping 65% of whom haven't received any official training – with a shoestring budget. |
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