The Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) welcomed 18 officials from ASEAN who participated in the "Checkpoint Competencies in People Clearance" course held in Singapore from 2 March to 8 March 2010. The 5-day course was sponsored by MFA under the ASEAN Training Award (ATA).
Experts from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) of Singapore, imparted knowledge and skills in performing passengers' clearance at border checkpoints and in forgery detection skills. Participants also visited the Woodlands Command to get a first-hand experience of the passenger clearance methods adopted at one of the world's busiest land checkpoints.
The sense of camaraderie of the group grew stronger by the day, even as they applied themselves seriously to the lectures and discussion groups. One participant, Ms Nguyen Thi Binh Phuong, Deputy Head of the Immigration Inspection Team from Hanoi, Viet Nam, commented that she had picked up useful information relevant to her course of work and would share it with the immigration officers back home.
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ASEAN Officials attending the course on Checkpoint Competencies in Passenger Clearance posed with officials from the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
Mr Vijakumar Senthuraj, Deputy Commissioner, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority conversing with Mr Pham Ngoc Tien, Chief of Visa Control Division, Immigration Office, Ho Chi Minh City
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