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  2. Change in state police academy requirements generates burst ...

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    Sep. 7—Eliminating the requirement that Pennsylvania State Police cadets have college credits under their belts in order to apply for trooper jobs was met with a burst of applications. State ...

  3. Category:Police academies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal police academies in the United States (8 P) Pages in category "Police academies in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.

  4. Police academy - Wikipedia

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    The exterior of the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Michigan, United States. A police academy, also known as a law enforcement training center, police college, or police university, is a training school for police cadets, designed to prepare them for the law enforcement agency they will be joining upon graduation, or to otherwise certify an individual as a law enforcement officer ...

  5. West Virginia State Police Academy - Wikipedia

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    To be accepted into the academy for cadet training, State Police recruits must be able to perform at least 27 push-ups per minute, 29 sit-ups per minute and be able to run 1.5-mile (2.4 km) in no more than 14:52 seconds during the initial physical test. These requirements are set by the West Virginia State Police and exceed state standards.

  6. EDITORIAL: Scandal at WVSP Academy worse than ... - AOL

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    Mar. 21—It's hard to imagine, but the scandal surrounding the West Virginia State Police Academy in Institute has gotten even worse. The academy made headlines in 2023 when someone sent a letter ...

  7. Police officer certification and licensure in the United ...

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    In the United States, certification and licensure requirements for law enforcement officers vary significantly from state to state. [1] [2] Policing in the United States is highly fragmented, [1] and there are no national minimum standards for licensing police officers in the U.S. [3] Researchers say police are given far more training on use of firearms than on de-escalating provocative ...

  8. 'Heartbreaking': Mass. police recruit dies after getting ...

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    The boxing component at the Massachusetts State Police Academy was suspended and revamped in the 1990s to respond to injury concerns, a former state police instructor told the Worcester Telegram ...

  9. State police (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Local NC sheriffs did not have the personnel, resources or training to do so during that era, but did not want their powers usurped by a per-se state police agency. Thus, the NC State Highway Patrol was established on July 1, 1929. Its original command staff was sent to the Pennsylvania State Police Academy for training.