The contracts of 13 Tanzanian jail officers working on the Seychelles predominant jail facility at Montagne Posee, which finish subsequent month, might be prolonged whereas others are anticipated to be recruited.

The extension was one of many topics mentioned by the Commissioner of Jail, Raymond St Ange, and the Commissioner Normal of Prisons of Tanzania, Mzee Ramadhani Nyamka, who’s on a four-day mission in Seychelles.

St Ange advised reporters on Wednesday that “the primary cohort in 2018 included 23 Tanzanian officers they usually have been right here till 2021. We now have 13 officers and are reviewing our engagement and we plan to recruit new Tanzanian jail officers to stability it out with these recruited regionally.”

The connection between the Seychelles Jail Companies (SPS) and the Tanzania Jail Companies (TPS) began after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on Could 1 in 2018.

Now that the TPS has a brand new Commissioner Normal of Prisons (CGP), Mzee Ramadhani Nyamka, the 2 events mentioned additional avenues to proceed exchanging experience and overview their current settlement in a bid to enhance the prisons in Seychelles.

Along with the Tanzanian jail officers, TPS may even ship two skilled nurses to work on the Montagne Posee jail as a stopgap whereas the native Jail Companies overview its technique of hiring native nurses.

Moreover, the 2 jail companies plan to cooperate within the coaching of Seychellois officers in order that they might have a look at how different jurisdictions operate.

Two Seychellois officers will go to the 123 prisons in Tanzania in a bid to assemble expertise as to how officers there handle 33,000 inmates.

SPS can also be searching for help for coaching in specialised areas comparable to medical and psycho-social assist for inmates with behavioural points.