Law Enforcement Academy to graduate 20th session
May 11, 2011
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5/11/11
Fifteen students will graduate from the 20th session of the UAF Community and Technical College Law Enforcement Academy Friday, May 13 at 1 p.m. at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.
The graduation marks the culmination of the 13-week academy, which is offered twice a year. The academy is designed to provide students with basic police training, which enables them to receive the Alaska Police Standards Certification. The certification makes them eligible for employment with the 21 state law enforcement agencies or 43 municipal police departments within Alaska.
This session’s students come from all over Alaska and the Lower 48 including Fairbanks, Chugiak, Soldotna, Whittier, Anchorage, Whittier, Nulato, North Pole, Unalaska, Kenai and El Paso, Texas. The class speaker is Alexander "Alex" Sporleder with the North Pole Police Department.
The ceremony brings the total number of academy graduates to 342 since August 2001. The next session of the academy begins Aug. 15, 2011.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Dusty Johnson, CTC law enforcement academy program coordinator, at 907-455-2811 or via email at dpjohnson@alaska.edu.
ON THE WEB: http://www.tvc.uaf.edu/programs/lawacad/index.html
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