{"id":410572,"date":"2026-08-19T06:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:20:32","slug":"learn-about-el-paso-police-via-upcoming-citizen-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410572\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about El Paso Police via upcoming Citizen Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) &#8212; El Pasoans will have a chance to get an inside look into the El Paso Police Department through its Citizen Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Citizen Academy will be held from Sept. 8 through Oct. 6 in the evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There will also be three Saturdays where the academy will be held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This community education program is in partnership with the Texas Department of<br \/>Public Safety and the El Paso Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p>The CPA is a community policing program aimed at helping citizens learn about some<br \/>of the different functions within the El Paso Police Department and Texas DPS. <\/p>\n<p>Among the topics that will be covered are: patrol, criminal investigations, use of<br \/>force, Texas Rangers, SWAT, bomb squad, CMT, civilian response to active<br \/>shooter events (CRASE), and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>To apply, you must be at least 18 years of age and no longer in high school. There is<br \/>no age limit as this is a community education program.<\/p>\n<p>The application is available online at eppd.org under the &#8220;Get Involved&#8221; tab. The<br \/>application may be completed and submitted completely online. Applications must be<br \/>turned in no later than Friday, Sept. 4.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 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;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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) &#8212; El Pasoans will have a chance to get an inside look into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[143402,81708,138,140,139,2263,34722,429],"class_list":["post-410572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-citizen-academy","tag-community-education-program","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-el-pasoans","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410572","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=410572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}