MEMBERS of the Joint Services training committee are conducting a Command Post Exercise at the Police Officers’ Mess, Police Headquarters, Eve Leary in anticipation of the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) period.

This training is facilitated for members of the Joint Services to be better equipped to handle possible situations during the elections period.

According to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), possible scenarios would be discussed and tested in Regional Police Division in Georgetown, East Bank Demerara and East Coast Demerara.

“Members of the public are hereby advised not to be alarmed by an increased Joint Services presence throughout the region,” the GPF noted.

Among those present at the training, which started yesterday at the Officers’ Mess, were Assistant Commissioner Simon Mc Bean, Commander 4A; Assistant Commissioner Khali Pareshram, Commander 4C; Senior Superintendent Mahendra Singh, Commander 4B; Deputy Director of Prisons (ag), Kevin Pilgrim; Lt. Col 2nd in Command 1 Infantry Battalion, Courtney Mendonca; Divisional Officer of Operations, Fire Service, Clive Mc Donald, along with senior NCOs, junior NCOs, Station Sergeants and other sergeants in the other services.