Before the Badge: Classroom training intensifies for Lubbock Police recruits
Right now, recruits are in the middle of their 50-hour course learning the penal code, or as Officer Tommy Prumer calls it, ...
Dallas City Council receives memo clarifying who can use future police training complex
Dallas City Council received a memo Friday from the Chief of Public Safety after a contentious meeting Wednesday, which indicated new recruits will ha ...
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Dallas looks for new site to build police academy as plans change for UNT Dallas project
The University of North Texas at Dallas will likely no longer ... The News reported last week that the new police training academy would be broken into two projects. Atkins and Jennifer Gates ...
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What happened to the promised police academy at UNT Dallas?
The current, rented training space near Dallas Executive ... intended to help design and build a new police academy on the University of North Texas at Dallas campus. It was, in our view, a ...
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Over 130 new highway patrol troopers welcomed into DPS ranks
AUSTIN, Texas (KAUZ) - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) welcomed 138 new Texas Highway Patrol Troopers from ...
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'Warriors' vs 'guardians': the pitfalls of police recruit training in the US
PERF also pointed out that the academy is not necessarily aligned ... Other states only require the training for school police, as Texas did before the Uvalde shooting. Only two of them, Illinois ...
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Dying to serve: Dozens of recruits have died nationwide while training to become police officers
“Training shouldn’t have one death, much less 29,” said David Jude, a retired Kentucky State Police academy commander and instructor ... More than two-thirds of the deaths occurred since 2020. A Texas ...