Thursday, 10 April 2025

10 COPS SACKED

Ten Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) constables, who were dismissed after failing the newly-introduced extended course programme, have lost a High Court bid where they were seeking reinstatement. The ex-officers had dragged Police Commissioner-General and the Police Services Commission to the High Court seeking an order declaring their dismissal unlawful.

They wanted to be allowed to rewrite the failed subjects or courses in the first semester of the programme to allow them to carry failed subjects into the second semester.

The 10 were attested into the ZRP on November 9, 2021 before starting training at Mkushi Training Depot, then known as Morris Training Depot.

They argued that training for police officers was for a period of six months after which they qualify to be awarded certificates and confirmed as members of the police services.

They submitted that the Police Commissioner-General advised them that starting that year, there will be an extended course programme in which those who passed will be awarded diplomas after two years.

The recruits would undergo two courses to be done simultaneously. However, at six months they would be issued with certificates, graduate and be eligible for deployment.

The 10 argued that they should not have been discharged from the police for failing the diploma programme, but retained on the basis of the six-month certificate. Newsday

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