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Sign Up For The Atlanta Police Department Civilian Academy

Listen up if you live in the Atlanta area.   The Atlanta Police Department is opening it’s doors to people interested in finding out more about law enforcement.  The Atlanta Police Department is now accepting applications  for the academy starting on April 18th.  Don’t worry about getting in shape, they won’t make you run, however you will get a taste of what officers on the street in Atlanta deal with on an everyday basis.

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Sign up for APD Citizens Police Academy

Patch.com, on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:31:26 -0700

The Atlanta Police Department is seeking participants for its Citizens Police Academy that will begin in mid-April. The academy will include more than 30 hours of instruction and participation requires a commitment of three hours, one night a week, …

The Atlanta Civilian Police Academy will run for 7 weeks, one night a week, for approximately 3 hours a night for a total of 30 hours of training.

Citizen Police Academies Starting – Now Taking Applications

It is good to see that even through these economic times, towns and villages across the United States have not cut their Citizen Police Academies.  It is a great bridge between the community and the police departments, usually leaving both sides with a better understanding of police work.

Here are the most recent announcements for the Citizen Police Academy:

In Indianapolis, Avon Citizen Police Academy:

13 WTHR IndianapolisAvon citizen’s police academy helping to teach and protect … – WTHR

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13 WTHR Indianapolis Avon citizen’s police academy helping to teach and protect …WTHR Entertainment News from AP By Emily Longnecker – bio | email When he went through Avon’s Citizen’s Police Academy last year though,  Sellmer’s favorite part was lear …

In Hingman, Massachusetts:

Applications Available For Hingham Police Academy – Patch.com

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Applications Available For Hingham Police Academy Patch.com By Tony Catinella Applications are now available for any interested Hingham residents who want to participate in April’s Citizens Police Academy. The applications can now be found online at hp …

If you ever get the chance to go a Citizen’s Police Academy you should take that opportunity.  It is a great learning experience for everyone involved.

If you don’t live in either of these towns, contact your local police department or sheriffs department and find out if they offer a Citizens Police Academy.

First Massachusetts State Police Academy Graduation In Five Years

The Massachusetts State Police Academy held their first graduation in five years.   Municipalities have greatly cut back on their budgets across the board and we know that Law Enforcement is usually the first place that is cut.  More so than just Law Enforcement, it is training that is effected and usually first on the list of things to go!  So it is nice to see that the MSP finally held a class and congratulations to the new troopers.

Quigley, Pierce Graduate State Police Academy – Patch.com

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Quigley, Pierce Graduate State Police AcademyPatch.comBy Danielle Masterson The 2012 graduating class of the Massachusetts State Police Academy out for a run last week. Courtesy Massachusetts State Police Editor’s note: At the request of several read …

Congratulations to Trooper Scott Quigley, Trooper Christopher Pierce, Trooper Pat Scanlon, and all of the other Troopers of the graduating class.  Let’s hope it is not another five years before we report about the next graduation from the Massachusetts State Police Academy.

Two New Officers for Williamson Police Department

WILLIAMSON, West Virginia – The Williamson Police Department has gained two new officers.

.  Watching, and later congratulating them, was Chief of Williamson Police, C.D. Rockel.

“They both attended the 147th basic class,” Rockel said, “which takes 16 weeks with 860 hours of intense study and training.”

Rockel said that Taylor and Marcum would begin working on Monday, Nov 7. This, Rockel said, is the last free weekend they’ll have for a while.

“I told them they had better enjoy it,” Rockel said, laughing. “Because you won’t get too many of those.”

The new officers were truly pushed to the limit, as not everyone can endure the course, Rockel said.

“They actually started out with 48 cadets and graduated only 38 of them.”

With these two new officers, the Chief said that a night foot-patrol would begin in Williamson next weekend, Nov. 11 and 12.

This foot-patrol would involve an officer walking the streets of the city and shaking on business doors, making sure they are locked. A card, stating an officer had been there at a certain time, would then be slid under the door.

Rockel said that if a break-in were to occur, there would be a timeframe now as to when it may have happened.

Not only will the foot-patrol be making sure doors are locked, it will also allow for an increased sense of security for people out late at night and possibly prevent crimes before they have a chance to occur.

Rockel said he is anxious for them to get to work so that the WPD can increase its patrols.

“I am very proud of both of them,” Rockel said. “As well as the whole department.”

Harrisburg Police Academy getting ready to celebrate 100 years

HARRISBURG, PA —

College, federal, state and local dignitaries, as well as former cadets, are to join in a special ceremony at 4 p.m. Nov. 17 in the college’s Wildwood Conference Center. A reception will follow.

“Approximately 31 cadets currently enrolled in the 20-week academy are among the last cadets to use the existing facilities, which are being replaced by a state-of-the art law enforcement complex,” said Beth Dombrowsky, PSC managing director of and director of law enforcement training.

To mark the occasion, HACC is looking for one graduate from each of the classes from the first to the 99th to participate in a roll call and honor guard.

“We do have several of our instructors on board already to participate in this roll call,” Dombrowsky said. “However, we still have many classes unrepresented at this time.”

When the Sen. Jeffrey Piccola Law Enforcement Complex opens its doors next spring as part of an ongoing $15 million renovation and expansion, the educational and training complex will include a 25-lane indoor firing range, SMART classrooms, a weight room, locker rooms and an outdoor running track.

The building also will be certified for its sustainable, green construction.

Included in the first phase construction at the 11-acre PSC complex, adjacent to HACC’s

Harrisburg campus, are renovations to the six-story burn building, driver training range, expanded parking lot and additional training sites for Hazmat and other emergency situations.

The second, third and fourth phases of the master plan will expand the center’s current capabilities into new areas of technology and training possibilities.

Timetables and projected costs are to be determined after the first phase is completed.

“The PSC is a key ingredient to law enforcement success in central Pennsylvania, serving for more than 30 years as a leading provider of training that spans the breadth of the specialty,” Dombrowsky said. “HACC’s Municipal Police Academy is the second largest in Pennsylvania and is a major supplier of police recruits in central Pennsylvania, training between 70 and 100 cadets annually,” she said.

Ayer Citizen Police Academy learns about Drinking and Driving

Ayer- Massachussets:  “Two beers.” That’s the classic answer given to police by those suspected of drunken driving.

That’s according to the officers who conducted the drunken-driving seminar last Wednesday as part of the 13th Ayer Citizens Police Academy.

The weekly seminars stretch through mid December for the class of 25 students.

Previously funded by a state grant, the program took a hiatus last year. But Academy Director and Ayer Police Sgt. John MacDonald said the program has continued thanks to a commitment by Ayer Police Chief William Murray.

The participants learn about police work. Seminars include presentations about motor vehicles stops, the use of force and defensive tactics, criminal investigations, and firearms demonstrations, to name a few topics.

Last Wednesday, the evening was devoted to Operating Under the Influence arrests. The audience peppered the officers with questions.

Is it dangerous to drive while fatigued, asked one man. Yes, said MacDonald, but the sentencing for drunken driving may automatically lead to a loss of license and/or imprisonment.

A woman asked if an open container charge could be attached if the alcohol is in the trunk. Not automatically, said Patrolman Richard Krasinskas, who said the beverage must be “within reach of the driver” to attach the charge.

“What if I ignore you?” asked another man, who pondered if a person provided a license and registration but otherwise refused to speak. “We try to engage you,” answered Krasinskas.

“If you open the window a crack, we’re going to know something is wrong and we’ll spend extra time on you,” answered MacDonald. “I wouldn’t advise it.”

Another person asked if breath-freshening sprays can cause a person to fail an alcohol breath test. “It’s a different kind of alcohol,” said Krasinskas. “The machine will only pick up the ethanol.”

Before testing a person’s blood alcohol count (BAC), MacDonald said the subject must not eat, burb, vomit or hiccup for 15 minutes before the test, otherwise the wait time must start anew. He recalled one woman squirreled away chewing gum in her mouth. “She had to spit it out and we restarted the 15 minute wait,” said MacDonald.

Some stops are silly. MacDonald recalled the man who offered his Vitamin World card instead of his license when stopped and exited his vehicle wearing one flip-flop.

But there were local stories of drunken-driving disasters.

One occurred on Harvard Road, which caused head injuries when the two occupants were ejected from the car. Each was airlifted by helicopter — one to a Boston hospital, the other to a Worcester hospital.

“There was very little time to find out what was going on,” recalled MacDonald. The first priority is the “preservation of human life” but when EMTs arrive, officers are left to “determine if criminal charges would be appropriate. In that case, it was unclear who was driving because both were ejected.

A Littleton Road accident seriously injured two female occupants when the driver passed out while driving and the convertible car in which there were riding “split in half” on impact. In both cases, the victims survived, said MacDonald.

A veteran of the overnight shift, MacDonald said multiple departments swarm the scene of such accidents. “In middle of the night, you rely on who you can get to come out,” said MacDonald. The surrounding departments are “always there for us and we rely on them.”

The class left the Police Department on Park Street and reconvened inside the massive garage at Lorden Oil on Fitchburg Road. Company President Ted Lorden offered the space to keep the class out of last Wednesday night’s rain.

Lorden and the students watched as the garage door rolled up and a black SUV and police cruiser rolled in — props for the evening’s presentation.

The evening’s three volunteer “actors” had downed several drinks each while under police supervision at the police station. The trio was transported to the scene and seated, one after the other, in the driver’s seat of the SUV for play-by-play OUI re-enactments.

Though funny to watch, the display was a sobering reminder of the dangers of drunken-driving. It soon became crystal clear that the volunteers experienced dulled senses due to the drinking outside of their typical comfort zones. Each said they’d never have attempted driving in their respective conditions.

Mary

Mary Shanahan, 24, is an ophthalmic technician. She bebopped to the stereo in the SUV as Krasinskas approached the window.

Shanahan flashed a broad smile, believing she’d aced the first test — reciting the alphabet. She ended with a grand flourish — on the letter “V.” Krasinskas asked Shanahan to exit the vehicle for a battery of field sobriety tests.

“How much have you had?” asked Krasinskas. “Lots,” answered Shanahan.

Each volunteer ate dinner before drinking. Shanahan had four rum and colas. She hollered, “Bam!” after successfully walking nine steps, in heel-to-toe fashion. But she bobbled halfway through holding one foot elevated for a 30 count.

Krasinskas pulled out a portable Breathalyzer device, “In no way will this affect your license.” Shanahan registered a.042 reading Blood Alcohol Count reading, prompting the “release” Shanahan with a “citation” for failing to stay within marked lanes.

Krasinskas said a BAC below .06 isn’t enough to prompt a drunken-driving charge. A BAC of 0.06 through 0.07 prompts a drunken-driving presumption when paired with failed field sobriety tests. But a BAC reading of at least .08 meets the Massachusetts drunken- driving limit and warrants immediate arrest.

Have a nice night,” said Krasinskas to Shanahan. Later Shanahan said she’d never have drunk that much, saying she was more of a “sipper” than a drinker.

Dena

“Notice the seat belt?” said Dena Brant, 41, to the audience. Brant is a postal carrier for the Ayer post office.

Detective Andrew Kularski made the “stop” of Brant’s car, asking why she “drove” over marked lanes. Brant answered, “that’s how the road curves.”

Brant claimed she had two beers. Actually, Brant consumed a six-pack of Heineken Beer, which she later said was well outside her typical two-beer limit.

As a postal carrier, Brant said she walks 13 miles a day so she felt ready for the sobriety tests. But she was put off by a request to remove her glasses before taking the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test (or HGN for short). As Kularski’s finger passed from left to right about a foot away from her face, Brant’s eyes jerked instead of following smoothly.

On heel-to-toe walking, Brant’s hands levitated away from the side of her body where they were supposed to remain during the test. She started giggling during a leg lift count to 30. “I failed.”

Brant blew into the Breathalyzer. Without revealing the results, Kularksi asked Brant to place her hands out to her sides with her palms up. A look of shock flashed over Brant’s face as Kularski slapped on cuffs. “You’re under arrest for operating under the influence,” said Kularski.

Later Brant said she felt out of control and would never have considered driving in her condition. “I thought that one beer was a DUI (Driving Under the Influence). I was surprised it took that much for me to be an OUI.” Brant blew exactly .08 BAC, the drunken-driving limit.

Alex

Alexandria “Alex” Verill was “hammered” said an audience member.

A West Virginia native, Verill works at Walmart in Lunenburg. She lives nearby as her identical twin sister, Martha Ridgeway, serves as an active member of the Air Force. They’re 34 years old.

Ridgeway stood in the audience and watched as officers flanked Verill to ensure she didn’t fall and hurt herself.

Glassy-eyed, Verill grinned from ear to ear. Detective Kellie Barhight noted that Verill was already leaning on the rear bumper of the vehicle to steady herself. Verill failed the gaze test.

“To be honest, because of the condition she’s already in, I probably wouldn’t have her do anything else,” said Barhight. “I’ve already made my decision that she’s under the influence of drugs, alcohol — something. But she should not be driving.”

Verill reacted by flashing a “thumbs-up” to the audience.

To prove the point, Barhight asked Verill to perform the heel-to-toe walking test. Verill buckled. The offices grabbed Verill to prevent a fall. On went the cuffs.

Verill drank six beers and blew a .086 BAC — over the legal limit. Verill said she felt “as high as a kite,” adding she never would have driven in that condition. “I’m not stupid.”

Standing nearby, Shanahan said she just wanted to take a nap. Barhight affectionately suggested, “If you see the drunks tomorrow, offer to buy them a cup of coffee.”

The presentation is a prime example of why Vivian Winchester of Ayer has enrolled in the Ayer Citizens Police Academy — for a seventh time. “I find the classes so interesting.”

Police Academy Daily News – October 4, 2011

Newport Police Welcome New Officer After Police Academy Graduation

The Newport Police Department’s newest officer, Brad Purdom, graduated from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) Police Academy on Sept. 16 after his enrollment in Basic Police Class 326 on May 23.

It is nice to see new officers that are graduating the Police Academy.  Considering the cut backs all over, people often forget that officers retire and new officers need to hit the streets to take their place.  Congratulations Officer Brad Purdom.

Newport’s newest police officer graduates from training academy

The Newport Police Department’s newest officer, Brad Purdom, graduated from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) Police Academy on Sept. 16 after his enrollment in Basic Police Class 326 on …

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KSK dedicates new police academy

When Might, Kan., cops return to school this fall, they’ll do it inside a new facility named after one that belongs to them.

Might, Kan., College intends to unveil the dollarsignr1.six million, 8,600-square-feet Dr. Michael E. Haen Police Academy on its campus today.

Haen was a teacher in the college along with a reserve officer using the Might, Kan., Police Department who had been wiped out within the type of duty in 1978 while pointing traffic in the scene of the minor car accident. A guy pressed Haen down, required his gun and shot another officer, who came back fire and accidentally wiped out Haen.

“He and that i were office mates at the school in those days, and that we were in exactly the same police reserve unit,” stated Ben Hayes, the school’s director of faculty and staff development, who first recommended the concept to title the ability after Haen. “I just always believed that after Mike was wiped out that people must do something to recognition the sacrifice he earned.”

The brand new facility, taken care of from the college’s general fund, includes two classes, a celebration room, a gym along with a multipurpose area which will house shooting and driving simulators. It considerably boosts the training academy’s previous space in an off-campus strip mall, and today enables the academy to host bigger classes, more regional occasions and joint programs using the college’s criminal justice program, stated Capt. Doug Parisi, the academy’s commander.

“It brings us more consistent with current police academies” for other departments, Parisi stated. “Basically exactly what the move provides for us is really a single place to do our training.”

Parisi stated the academy serves the department’s 400 full-some time and reserve officials, who require 40 hrs of retraining annually, as well as might be training as much as 16 new officials within the fall.

Joanne Haen — Michael Haen’s wife along with a upon the market professor for that college — was surprised and happy the academy could be named after her husband.

“This is one thing that, if my hubby was alive, he and Ben (Hayes) both could have been pushing for this,” she stated.

The ability is going to be devoted at 11 a.m. today.

Iron cage waiting Mubarak to stand trial in Cairo Police Academy

The trial of Egypt’s ousted leader may have consequences over the Arab world, creates MICHAEL JANSEN

EGYPTIANS ARE waiting to ascertain if ousted leader Mubarak appearsat his trial right now to face charges of graft and participation within the killing of 846 protesters throughout the uprising. Cairo’s Court Arrest come in session in the police academy, guarded by 8,000 troops.

Mr Mubarak (83) is anticpated to be flown towards the venue within an military helicopter in the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh when they have been dwelling within the Very important personel wing since April. Based on Egyptian media, he’ll be limited within the pier inside a 30m iron cage. A mattress is going to be provided as needed.

Although his doctors have stated he isn’t good enough to become moved or stand trial, Egyptian minister for health Amr Helmy stated, “Mubarak’s . . . condition enables his transfer to Cairo.” Medical staff is going to be available for his care.

Standing trial alongside the first kind leader is going to be his sons, Alaa and Gamal, former interior minister Habib al-Adly, and six senior cops. They’ll be driven inside a convoy of armoured automobiles from Tora prison towards the court.

The outlet session will probably be brief and procedural. Mr Mubarak’s defence lawyers are required to demand an adjournment to allow them to prepare their situation. However, trial judge Ahmad Refaat has stated a legal court will stay in session and listen to the situation until came to the conclusion. A minimum of 600 security-vetted lawyers, relatives of sufferers, and journalists, will attend the trial which is broadcast survive Egyptian condition television.

Mr Mubarak and also the other accused are billed with participation within the killing of 846 protesters, and graft, particularly within the purchase of 5 villas worth dollarsignr40 million, along with a deal for that purchase by Israel of gas at below market prices.

The trial is for certain to draw in much more regional and worldwide attention compared to ongoing trial in absentia of former Tunisian leader Zine el-Abidin ben Ali and 23 relatives.

Egypt, probably the most populous Arab country, used to be the political, economic and cultural hub from the Arab world.

Mr Mubarak ruled by having an iron fist for 3 decades. Muslim fundamentalists, leftists and persecuted civil society experts will definitely be both shocked and buoyed by his appearance inside a cage like the cages into that they were packed. Egyptian people may also be deeply moved through the former president’s humiliation – whether he makes its way into the pier today or otherwise.

The trial is a central need for an incredible number of democracy activists who’ve played within the uprising, suspended throughout the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. As the generals who assumed presidential forces following Mr Mubarak’s removal were not wanting to prosecute their former commander-in-chief, these were compelled to do this by repeated “million man” marches within the capital’s legendary Tahrir Square, Alexandria, Suez, and elsewhere.

Many activists will probably complain, however, the trial is happening inside a civil court while protesters detained through the security forces and military continue to be given summary tests by military courts.

The trial may have major consequences over the Arab world as well as in nations governed by authoritarian routines unaccountable towards the public.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s government should be expected to improve pressure on protesters seeking his removal from energy. However the regime may also feel compelled to pursue reforms to soothe the situation. Arab leaders not facing mass revolt may be urged to satisfy opposition demands for democracy, accountability and transparency. If Mr Mubarak attends today’s proceedings, his image within the cage could stay in the mind’s eye of dictators everywhere for any very long time.