Students from the School of Armed Forces Commissars in immersion at the School of Specialties of the Commissariat of the Armed Forces

This immersion constitutes a fundamental milestone in the training of student commissioners, to enable them to understand the professional skills of the teams that they will command after school in the areas of support. From Monday morning, the student commissioners were welcomed by the general director of training a word of welcome from the ESCA students. After a presentation of the school by its director, the students visited the school’s facilities.

ESCA highlighted its uniqueness: the direct relationship between instructors and trainees. Divided into eight groups, the students followed different workshops, in the areas of catering (kitchen and bakery), administration (treasury information systems, accounting and human resources), or even logistics (tracking tools, inventory management, transit monitoring). The student commissioners also benefited from courses given especially for them by the ESCA educational teams in preparation for the OTTER exercise which will be held next September. ESCA instructors endeavored throughout the week to demonstrate the irreplaceable added value of educational face-to-face meetings, in professions where precision, rigor and the transmission of professional gestures are essential.

On the sidelines of this trip, the student commissioners had the honor of benefiting from a conference from Vice-Admiral de Guibert, commander of the maritime zone and district of the Channel and the North Sea, maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea, on the different security issues in its maritime zone. During a rich intervention with great freedom of tone, the maritime prefect notably mentioned the variety and density of operations, whether they relate to the fight against illicit trafficking, the rescue of migrants, or the reconciliation of co-activities at sea, with the development of fields. wind power, fishing and passenger transport, in an area which concentrates 25% of global maritime traffic.

Beyond the classrooms, this week was marked by strong moments of cohesion between the two schools. The students took part in various physical and collective activities, such as a seaside run and a nautical outing. These initiatives demonstrate the importance given to physical fitness and surpassing oneself in the Commission’s training.

Two schools, the same mission

This week of integration strongly illustrates the complementarity that unites the ECA and the ESCA within the police station. Training the commissioners of tomorrow also means giving them the keys to understanding and promoting the expertise of their subordinates. With nearly 4,000 trainees trained each year, ESCA finds in this partnership with the ECA a natural echo: that of two schools which, each at their own level, work to support the armies of tomorrow.