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36 police cadets kick off classroom course
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Posted on Sep 02 2008
Thirty-six police cadets, including four from Yap, started undergoing a classroom course at the Department of Public Safety’s police academy yesterday.
The police cadets—20 from Saipan; five from Tinian; four from Rota; four from Yap; and one each from the Attorney General’s Investigative Unit, Division of Immigration, and Office of the Public Auditor—began the training on Aug. 18. They are expected to complete the 16-week academy by the end of December 2008.
Lt. Kevin Aldan, DPS officer-in-charge for training and professional development for police and fire academy, told Saipan Tribune that they conducted an orientation with family members of the police cadets yesterday.
Aldan said the command staff oriented the cadets earlier by giving them words of encouragement in order for them to graduate successfully.
“Tonight[Tuesday] we want to meet with the family and to explain to them what they are going to go through in the academy. It is going to be a stressful environment for them because they’re learning new subjects or molding them to become police officers. We’re giving them controlled stress environment so we want the family to support them, like helping them with their clothes, preparing meals…” he said.
He said the classroom course included an introduction to the police career, constitutional law, criminal justice, and various other police classes that will be coming up as the academy progresses.
The cadets just did public safety rules and regulations, academy rules and regulations, and the close order drills, and platoon drills both outside and in the class, Aldan said.
With respect to the fire academy, a total of 20 fire cadets, all from Saipan, also started training since Aug. 18. The classroom course began last Wednesday.
“They are all doing good,” Aldan said.
