The Sunday News
Sisa Sihwa, Sports Reporter
THE Commissioner General of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services, Rtd Major General Paradzai Zimondi, has urged officers commanding provinces to establish gym facilities in their area of jurisdiction to enhance the fitness levels of officers and promote their health.
Speaking last Saturday at the closing ceremony of the Commissioner General’s Sports Week staged at Ntabazinduna Training School, Retired Major General Zimondi also announced that procedures of identifying and training of gyms instructors were already in motion.
“May I take this moment to direct all Officers Commanding Provinces to establish gym centres in their respective provinces and also equip such centres with basic gym kits. You may be pleased to know that we are already in the process of identifying and training gym trainers,” said Zimondi.
He gave guidance that the gym facilities that will be established in the provinces should be managed by professional trainers, so that operations are performed in a way that suits the individual officers.
“We want the gym facilities that the Officers Commanding Provinces are going to establish to be manned by professionals trainers, who are trained to design exercise programmes that fit our individual officers in a fun and safe way. They will be showing us the proper exercises techniques so that we do not hurt ourselves but get the most out of the exercise routine,” added Zimondi.
The main aim of the gym is promote fitness and health of the prison officers as the gym facilities will provide activities such as weight lifting and aerobics.
Meanwhile, ZPCS were invited to participate at the National Youth Games to be held from 17 to 27 August in Matabeleland North and Bulawayo.
Matabeleland region were crowned champions of this year’s Commissioner General Sport Week after picking up more gold medals.
The games which were played through theme “Correctional Development Through Sport,” were aimed at identifying and selecting talent to represent the country at the Southern Africa Development Community regional games to be held later on this year in Swaziland.
The purpose of the national games was to select a team that will represent the country in the Sadc Prisons and Correctional Service Games to be held in Swaziland this year,’’ Zimondi said.
Matabeleland, Mashonaland, Manicaland, Ntabazindunda, Midlands/Masvingo and National Headquarters are the teams which participated in the ZPCS Commissioner’s General’s Sport Week.
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