{"id":208238,"date":"2026-03-17T12:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:52:30","slug":"el-paso-police-department-to-host-citizen-police-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208238\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Police Department to host citizen police academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The El Paso Police Department, in partnership with Texas DPS, will be hosting the first session of the citizen police academy next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EPPD says the education program will begin on Tuesday, April 7, and conclude on Thursday, April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The CPA is a community policing program \u201caimed at helping citizens learn about some of the different functions within the El Paso Police Department and Texas DPS,\u201d EPPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among the topics of interest that will be covered are the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To apply, you must be at least 18 years of age and no longer in high school. There is no age limit, as this is a community education program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To access the application, click here. The application must be completed, submitted online, and turned in by Monday, March 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The El Paso Police Department, in partnership with Texas DPS, will be hosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[81708,81707,138,140,139,2263,27,2785,429],"class_list":["post-208238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-community-education-program","tag-education-program","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-texas","tag-texas-dps","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}