A significant number of women are being turned away from joining The Barbados Police Service (TBPS) each year due to insufficient accommodation facilities, Attorney General Dale Marshall revealed on Monday.Speaking at a signing ceremony to launch the partial renovation of the Regional Police Training Centre, Marshall admitted: “Every year we have to turn away a significant number of women simply because we can’t physically accommodate them.”The attorney general highlighted ongoing challenges in police recruitment: “Recruitment of police officers is obviously a challenge. I’m happy to say we’ve done a little bit better in the last two cohorts than we had previously when I became AG.”Marshall noted a concerning trend in recent years: “I think in my second year as AG we saw the recruitment class drop as low as 18. That tells a story when you only have 18 young men and women interested in joining the police service at any given time.”But, he reported some improvement: “Our last graduating cohort, I think the number was just over 60.”
