At l 'Ecole Internationale de Perfectionnement de la Practice de la Police Judiciaire (EI3PJ) of the Gibutian National Gendarmerie, the course for trainers on the Contrôle de la circulation routière et constatation d'accident de la route.
The training cycle, which took place following the “Train the Trainer” formula, lasted three weeks and involved 5 instructor non-commissioned officers from the Gibutian National Gendarmerie. The theoretical and practical lessons focused on notions of didactics and teaching methodology, with specific contents on operational intervention techniques for road traffic control and accident detection, activities that the Carabinieri carries out on a daily basis at national level.
The aim of the course was to provide the Djiboutian instructors with skills and competences to be passed on to the colleagues of the "Unité de Sécurité Routiére de la Gendarmerie Nationale" in their training sessions. Expert personnel, coming from the territorial departments of the Arma and framed in MIADIT SOMALIA 14, commanded by Colonel Giuseppe Corso, directed the training by providing learners with theoretical and practical principles on planning and setting up a checkpoint, on vehicle search techniques and personnel as well as on road accidents with the development of photographic, planimetric and altimetric surveys.
Subsequently we moved on to the realization on the road of scenarios, gradually more and more complex, of road accidents to be detected with the techniques taught by the instructors of the Arma. During the three weeks, the MIADIT 14 instructors particularly insisted on the principle of safety: that is, every activity must be carried out with the awareness that the operator on the road is exposed to numerous risks and, consequently, certain measures must be implemented. procedures that minimize exposure to the inherent dangers of territorial control activities.
The skills acquired were tested through a final exercise where the Djiboutian Instructors were able to demonstrate the skills acquired during the course, carrying out a frontal lesson and a practical demonstration on a complex scenario where different road accidents were detected with the "triangulation" method. with multiple means involved, injured and victims.
At the end of the course, a formal ceremony was held in the EI3PJ boardroom, in which the head of the School Maj. Kayad and the squadron commander of the Unité de Sécurité Routiére Ten.
The new methodologies acquired by the gendarmes and the skills expressed in the practical demonstrations have highlighted the excellent success of the course and have laid the foundations for the renewal of the training commitment in the future training activities of the mission.
