THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) Public Relations (PR) Department benefitted from a series of sports journalism training recently.

The facilitator who conducted the session was Mr. Edwin Seeraj.

Public Relations and Press Officer, Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan, said Seeraj has over 30 years of experience in the sports arena.

He said that he is known for his popular television shows dubbed as “Lotto Cricket Info and Quiz” and “NCN Sports Magazine”, both air on the National Communications Network Channel 11.

The superintendent explained that the PR Department is tasked with producing articles on police activities, which include sports for the force’s periodicals (The Copper and the E-Newsletter), and also to publish same on social media and the police force’s website.

Hence, he said it must be noted that such training will improve the ‘sports section’ of those periodicals.

Mr. Seeraj, a former school teacher with over 10 years of experience, pointed out writing articles on sport can be done in many different ways from the usual standard.

He also implored upon the officers to be involved in all of the sporting disciplines, whether by reading or participating, because with the knowledge gained, they would be better equipped to write more in-depth and quality articles.

The former sports journalist also touched on some very important points such as: target audience, proper record keeping, usage of words, time management, etc.

Superintendent Ramlakhan, in expressing gratitude to Mr. Seeraj, also explained the importance of the training, since the PR Department is robustly continuing to highlight and showcase the GPF via both the print and broadcast media.

The PRO calls on everyone to follow and share the Police Facebook Page, which currently has in excess of 29,000 followers.

All information disseminated to the press or published in the periodicals, is also posted on that social media platform which can be found by following the link: https://www.facebook.com/guyanapoliceforce/