Pennsylvania State Police Troop N at Hazleton will host its free Citizen\u2019s Police Academy again this year for the eighth time.<\/p>\n
The program is set to be held at Penn State Hazleton with a goal of building community trust and understanding, Public Information Officer Anthony Petroski said.<\/p>\n
Classes are designed to expand citizens\u2019 knowledge and understanding of the law and explore police procedure from the perspective of the Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n
The academy classes take place every Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m., Oct. 27 to Dec. 15. Classes are limited to 30 participants who will be selected from interested applicants.<\/p>\n
Students need to attend at least 75% of classes to be eligible to graduate and receive a certificate.<\/p>\n
Each class covers a different element of policing such as special emergency response teams (SERT), K-9, criminal investigators, case studies and forensic services.<\/p>\n
All applicants must be at least 18-years-old and a resident of Troop N\u2019s coverage area which includes all of Carbon, Columbia and Monroe counties as well as southern Luzerne County.<\/p>\n
Participants will also undergo a minor background check.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf participants take any positive thoughts from this program, then it\u2019s successful,\u201d said Petroski who believes the program is a great community initiative.<\/p>\n
For applications, contact Trooper Petroski at 570-459-3900 ext. 263 or anpetroski@pa.gov.<\/p>\n
The deadline to apply is Oct. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police Troop N at Hazleton will host its free Citizen\u2019s Police Academy again this year for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,4434,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,6519],"class_list":["post-303354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-hazle-township","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-hzs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303354","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=303354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}