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Monday, February 26, 1973
PRISONS STAFF RECRUITMENT PROCEDURES STREAMLINED
Day-To-Day Terms Within Three Weeks
Recruitment procedures are being streamlined in the current drive
to get more young people to join the prisons service.
A successful candidate for the post of Assistant Officer Class II
can now be engaged on day-to-day terms at full pay within three weeks of
his posting the application form.
Candidates are required to have a minimum of primary six education.
The starting salary will be from $570, but those who possess a Certificate
of Education may join at a higher entry point.
Under the present Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. T.G. Garner, the
prisons service is offering better than ever promotion prospects to young
people of good calibre.
Vacancies in the upper grades are generally filled by officers who
start from the bottom rank.
policy.
The modern prisons service lays emphasis on a more progressive penal
Men and women in the service must not only be confident in discharging
custodial aspect of their duties for the protection of the community, but must
also be ready to play an effective part in the treatment and reformation of
the offenders.
/At present,