Every Wednesday night is a training meeting intended to provide Recruit Academy graduates with more advanced and task specific training. Explorers awaiting a Recruit Academy may attend Graduate Training until an Academy becomes available.
The Graduate Training program focuses on specific tasks of a law enforcement officer with a heavy focus on hands-on and practical training. In the graduate program we spend a short time in the classroom discussing the task being taught, and then set up practical exercises to reinforce what was presented in the classroom. Our most common form of practical exercise is role playing scenarios.
In a role playing scenario, the explorers act the part of police officers responding to a simulated event. Instructors act as coaches and judges while other instructors and volunteers act as the victims, witnesses, suspects and bystanders. We make these events as realistic as we can without compromising safety.
Examples of graduate training include:
-traffic stops
-searching a building for an armed suspect
-responding to a domestic dispute
-conducting an investigation
-and many others