ZPCS promotes 23

Post Correspondent
A TOTAL of 23 Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services officers, among them three women, were conferred with new ranks on Monday.Those conferred with new ranks include superintendents, chief prison officers and principal prison officers.

Speaking at the ceremony on behalf of ZPCS Commissioner-General  Paradzai Zimondi, Assistant Commissioner Didymus Chimvura described the officers’ conferment of new ranks as a significant way of helping the organisation to take part in Government’s Zim-Asset blueprint.

“Being the recipients of today’s promotions, it has to be borne in mind that your promotion comes with increased responsibility  and influence vested in you so that you can be able to exercise what you could not practice before,”

“It is our hope as an organisation that your promotion is going to contribute significantly to the implementation of our aspirations. We expect you to help ZPCS in supporting Government’s Zim-Asset blueprint which obligates us to provide improved and sound rehabilitation activities to prisoners in an effort to ensure that they live as productive and law-abiding citizens upon their discharge from prison, among various other obligations,” he said.

Asst Comm Chimvura also urged the promoted officers to jealously guard the dignity of Zimbabweans and the supremacy of the nation’s constitutional mandate.

Said Asst Comm Chimvura: “As an organisation, we need to have a unity of purpose so that we prosper and achieve our set goals. The nation’s sovereignty has to be jealously safeguarded and to this end, I urge you to continue to be well disciplined and to cease forthwith indulging in corrupt activities for we will not spare you if you are caught.”

He also clearly stated the ZPCS’ intended goal to attain improved production at the various prison farms in order to guarantee food security within its respective institutions.

The three female officers promoted to the rank of principal prison officers include Hazel Makotamo, Stembeni Sithole and Melania Zhowalehe.

In June, the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services also saw the promotion of 39 non-commissioned officers to the rank of senior prison officer and 42 to the rank of prison officer grade one.