NASSAU, Bahamas, April 9, 2019 (BIS) – Lindsay Thompson, Senior Information Officer at Bahamas Information Services (BIS), recently completed three-and-a-half weeks of training at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
The Executive Policy and Development Symposium on Transnational Organized Crime – Anti-Corruption, and Media Relations Forum, Session 68, was held March 5-26, 2019.
Ms. Thompson, who is assigned to the Office of the Prime Minister, was Delegate Leader for the nine-member Bahamas Delegation comprising: Superintendent Matthew Edgecombe, Anti-Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Sergeant Dwayne Delancy, Anti-Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Inspector Kemuel Knowles, Anti-Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Inspector Anthony McCartney, Anti-Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Assistant Superintendent Bradley Pratt, Police Complaints Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Sergeant Trevor Burrows, Police Complaints Corruption Branch, Royal Bahamas Police Force; Wendy Farrington, Deputy Head of Analysis, Financial Intelligence Unit; and Khristi Ferguson, Deputy Director, Financial Intelligence Unit.
Other countries represented were: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, totaling 27 participants.
The sessions took on subject matters such as: Understanding Human Behaviour and Leadership Concepts, with group exercises; Leadership in Crisis Critical Thinking and Decision Making; Managing Organizational Change; Capacity Building and Country Presentations; Anti-Corruption; Types of Corruption; Investigative Techniques, law enforcement; Police Corruption, Media Relations and related topics concluding 124 hours of teaching.
The Bahamas Delegation also held a lunch meeting with Roswell Police Chief Phil Smith, who is doing his doctoral dissertation on The Royal Bahamas Police Force.
