LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Lower Merion Township Police announced its Fall 2025 Citizens Police Academy.<\/p>\n
Citizens are invited to apply to the 10-week academy now.<\/p>\n
Sessions will be held Mondays from Sept. 29 to Dec. 1. Each session will run from 6 p.m. to about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
All sessions will take place at the Lower Merion Police Department, located at 71 E. Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore.<\/p>\n
Topics covered will include:<\/p>\n
Organizational structureCriminal InvestigationsUse of ForceCrash Investigations\/DUIEmergency Response Team (ERT)K-9 PatrolUAS (Drone) Overview and DemonstrationForensic PathologyCriminal Justice System <\/p>\n
Those who want to join the academy are asked to commit to attending all classes due to high interest. The academy is limited to 15 participants. <\/p>\n
A minimum of 80 percent attendance is required to graduate from the program. Participants will have a graduation ceremony on the final night, where they will receive a certificate of completion.<\/p>\n
The application deadline is Sept 22.<\/p>\n
Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Residents of Lower Merion and surrounding communities are eligible to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Lower Merion Township Police announced its Fall 2025 Citizens Police Academy. Citizens are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}