The five-month course is truly intensive and people fall sick easily. But I was able to do it without any difficulties because I was not new to morning physical education training. It is common to every sports man or woman. During the training period, the trainees are not given an allowance for the first two months, but one is added in the third and subsequent months. This is to make sure that whoever gets the allowance is interested in the profession.
Trainees often quit within the first month because of the nature of the training.
Officials from various organizations, such as secondary schools, Prison Service, Police Service, Customs, Exercise and Preventive Service, visit various regional and national sports competitions to recruit sports men and women to their service so they will be well represented in national and international competitions. I was selected by both the Prison Service and the Police Service during the 1985-86 academic year. The Customs, Exercise and Preventive Service came around later, but my elder brother, who was a teacher, recommended the Prisons Service to my parents. They bought all the necessary sporting equipment for me and I attended the five months intensive training and performed creditably. After the training, I was confirmed as a prison officer without rank.