Samoa Police, Prisons and Correction Services continues to offer opportunities for its members. Through its ongoing capacity building programs, SPPCS was able provide an experience of a lifetime for Senior Sergeant Solomona Aima’asu being one of the Pacific secondment officers to join the Pacific Fusion Centre based in Vanuatu.
Senior Sergeant Aima’asu headed the Samoa Transnational Crimes Unit before joining Pacific Fusion Centre. The Centre is known to deliver training and strategic analysis against security priorities identified by Pacific Island Forum Leaders in the 2018 Boe Declaration on Regional Security. It is noted that their work “enhances information sharing, cooperation, analysis, and assessment, and expands situational awareness and capacity across the Pacific” which gives them the ability to elevate the level of “strategic assessments, inform decision making and strengthen national, sub-regional and regional responses to shared security threats and vulnerabilities”
The program activities saw secondments work and be trained on
Climate Security
• Cyber Security
• Human Security
• Environmental
• Economic Security
• Resource Security
• National Security & Transnational Crime
• Preserving the Rule of Law
• Implication of Dynamic Geopolitics
Senior Sergeant Aima’asu says “he is grateful for the opportunity to be given exposure at the regional level “
Upon return, it is anticipated that Senior Sergeant Aima’asu through his time at the Pacific Fusion Centre, will be “well versed with strategic analysis on regional security activities identified in the Boe Declaration after the completion of the secondment and training”
Be competent in strategic analysis report writing using different analytic techniques, domain analysis tools, capacity building, and information sharing.
Aima’asu looks forward to his return and is excited to share his experience with Samoa Police Services in hopes to enhance the work SPPCS does for Samoa.