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While agencies across the United States struggle to attract qualified recruit candidates, the Dallas Police Department welcomed 82 new recruits on Wednesday—the largest recruiting class in the department's storied history.
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The recruit—identified as 43-year-old Tony Alexander Cephas—was taking a water break with his fellow recruits when an instructor observed that something was wrong. Cephas was transported to a nearby hospital where he subsequently died.
Read More →Portland, OR, police are struggling to fill officer vacancies as recruits wash out during probation at about double the rate they have in the past
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Police Academy Instructor Patrick Martin shares 10 tips to help prospective officers meet the rigors of police training.
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Denver Police is currently training a police academy with 51 recruit officers. Of that number, 17 of them are women, making this the recruitment class with the largest number of women in the department's history.
Read More →The law would prohibit department heads from scouring personal social media accounts. The group wants to be able to dig through social media profiles to help screen candidates and protect the public from those who could “tarnish the badge.”
Read More →He is accused of robbing an ATM in Newhall on Nov. 28, 2017, and in an incidence of arson on Dec. 1. Sheriff’s officials did not say what he is suspected of setting fire to.
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The president of the local police union in Baltimore on Monday thanked a police academy legal instructor for voicing concerns about the preparedness of new recruits who received guns and badges over the weekend, saying the "training deficiencies that he exposed are real and should, by no means, be allowed to continue."
Read More →Six of the cadets were injured during a training exercise in which recruits fight off a training officer who attacks them.
Read More →An NYPD recruit only three months into his training died early Tuesday following a short battle with leukemia. He was 23.
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