July 10, 2013 Aboriginal students graduate from police pathway program Fifteen students are one step closer to achieving their goals of a career in the police force after graduating from the Hunter TAFE’s 2013 Maitland Indigenous Police Recruiting Our Way Delivery (IPROWD) program. Whitney Schofield of Cessnock, and Geoffrey Miller and Alana Stevens, both of Kurri, were among those to graduate at the ceremony held at Hunter Valley Hotel Academy on June 28. IPROWD is a specialist training program to assist Aboriginal people to gain entry to the NSW Police Academy at Goulburn which is the first step to becoming an officer in the NSW Police Force. Geoffrey said the opportunity to visit the NSW Police Academy was the highlight of the program, and that he wants to enter the police force to help people, get into the community and “impact lives for the better”. Whitney said she has always wanted to join the police force, “to have a feeling of importance in the community and to bridge the gap”. She said the program outweighed her expectations and the opportunity to increase her fitness was a highlight. Joining the police force was a personal goal for Alana since year 10. She said that the program had helped her become more organised and she had experienced significant improvement in mathematics and public speaking. The stories of last year’s graduates display further proof that the program gets results – two will enter the police academy in September, one is studying the Bachelor of Justice Studies with Charles Sturt University, while another is working with a local primary school as an Aboriginal Support Teacher. The Australian Government, TAFE NSW, the NSW Police Force and Charles Sturt University work in partnership to offer IPROWD training programs at a range of locations in NSW.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:38:29 +0000
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