MPs demand digital police recruitment following long queues
Reading Time: 3 minutesMEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called on the Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) to work with the ministry of information, communication and technology (ICT) to introduce an online police recruitment system and end the use of paper applications. The legislators said the recent police recruitment exercise, which saw thousands of young people queuing for days to submit their applications, showed the need for government to embrace digital transformation. This was during the ministry of ICT second quarter performance report debate in Parliament yesterday. Zombodze Emuva MP Ntando Mkhonta called on the police to seek advice from the ministry of ICT on modern ways of receiving job applications. He said the country had the Royal Science and Technology Park (RSTP), which…