A team of officers involved in prisoner rehabilitation programmes has completed a counseling and mental health training programme in Sri Lanka.
The Maldives Correctional Service (MCS) said the training programme was conducted in Negombo, Sri Lanka, with a total of nine officers and one civil servant from the Maldives participating in the programme. The participants included officers from three prisons as well as the MCS Head Office. The training programme was conducted in collaboration with The Helping Hand Psychological Hospital in Sri Lanka.
During their visit, the Maldives team also toured the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in Sri Lanka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading defence and academic institutions.
The closing ceremony of the “Counselling and Mental Health” training programme was graced by the Commissioner of Sri Lanka’s Prisons Department, Jagath Weerasinghe, and Deputy Commissioner of Prisons of the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Didi.
The main objective of the training programme was to enhance the capacity of officers and staff working in the rehabilitation field and to further strengthen the service provided by the MCS.