Posted: 2/9/2009 7:10:09 AM EDT
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It was 10 weeks many moons ago here when I went through, now we are up to 18 weeks.
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In 1995 Academy was 17weeks and another 52 working days of FTO (which works out to roughly 2.5 months on 12's).
Not sure what the academy is in Michigan now, but if they sissified it the way they have the rest of the LEO training/qualifications you can likely get it done over a weekend on your computer ,LMAO. J- |
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Let's see... the police academy I went thru over here in Switzerland is 2 years. First year is a lot of classroom stuff and theory. Once a week you spend the entire afternoon at the shooting range. You have 1.5 hours of DT per week and 1.5 hours of general excercising. There's a field training which is 8 weeks out on patrol and afterwards your back in school. At the end of the first year you're sworn in. The 2nd year starts off with another 10 weeks theory. Then you have your final exams which certify you as a police officer in the entire country. Afterwards you go to thru another field training. This time it's 3 months and you work alongside a detective. In the last 6 months are more like a probation period. you write your own reports, you patrol the streets and you get to make your own experiences, be it good or bad ones. There's also a couple of special courses that you participate at. Such as police tactics, driving, sports, psychology and so on.
The funny thing is, no matter how much they teach you at school, once you set foot into the real world, everything is suddenely totally different 
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Four years, give or take, plus another 3ish before I was assigned to military police, but that's the Navy for you. Want to be an officer in the Navy, get an engineering degree. Once in, they'll send you here and there until they decide what you're good for.
And you know, a lot of the stuff I learned in college did have applications here and there ................ but that's TAMU for you! ______________________________________________________________ ("They said they didn't need me afterall!"––Radio Operator "That's the Army for you!"––Geoffrey von Richter-Douglas, a spy, who decoyed him so he could use the radio, (w,stte), "Zeppelin") |
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4 more weeks...thanks for talking me into this 918. I think they want to bring back you old timers back for another 8 weeks. +14 weeks of fto to look forward to. HELL NO!! DROP AND GIVE ME 20 RECRUIT! And when your wife is pissed at some point due to the job, don't you even THINK of dragging me into it!
Sorry I missed you at the academy last week, I was not able to break away. |
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My original academy was 4.5 months, full time.
1st department FTO program was 4 months. 2nd department I didn't have academy, even though I moved back to Colorado from Texas. I just challenged the POST test and skills and passed. Went through a three month FTO program. I left there and went to my last department in June of 2008. There, FTO for laterals is only as long as required to get you to pass check rides. I had two weeks of admin after beinng sworn in 6/9/08. I was out on my own 8/8/08. Month and a half for that FTO program.
I picked this department because the other two I was looking at had mandatory academy attendance. I'm too old for that again. I kick my own ass on workouts now. 
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12 weeks at one SKILLS and 8-10 at others.
I chose the 12 week, because it worked into my schedule. private classes. not an "acadamy" 2 years AA degree, then Skills program, then state POST test, then find a job. I guess now, LE students can take skills along with college. saves time done in 2 years at the school. |
