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Episode Synopsis
Send us a textPolice Academy is more than just a funny movie starring Steve Guttenberg from 1984. It is the basis for law enforcement across the United States and most of the world.Police academies are training schools for recruit officers that provide the basic instruction on how to do job of a police officer. They include but are not limited to classes in firearms, physical control tactics, emergency driving, criminal law, arrest procedures, traffic stop procedures, medical skills, and emergency responses.To get a look behind the challenges faced by police academies today I spoke with two experts in the field. Major Nick Luce of the Indiana University Police Department and Director of the Indiana University Police Academy and Lt. David Livingston the Director of the Mott Community College Law Enforcement Academy in Flint Michigan. Both had some interesting things to say regarding police academy training and how things have affected the programs over the years.
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