On May 9th, 26 Peace Officer Basic recruits successfully completed 634 hours of training as part of basic academy 14-003.

The academy was comprised of 13 candidates from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources who are being hired as Wildlife Officers and 13 second-year Police Science students looking to launch their career in the law enforcement profession.

All of the recruits excelled in this very demanding academic and physical skills training program.  The class trained aggressively for 15 weeks to meet the Ohio Peace Officer physical conditioning requirement of the Cooper Institute 50th percentile.  In fact, all recruits tested above the 70th percentile, with Dustin Young reaching the 96th percentile.

The recruits received training from a variety of law enforcement professionals covering 13 required units consisting of hundreds of Student Performance Objectives.  These units of instruction ranged from firearms and emergency driving to laws of arrest, search and seizure and incident management, just to name a few.  They were tested weekly on material taught in preparation for their State Certification Examination on June 4, 2014.  Their dedication to learning was reflected in their weekly academic achievements.  The class average is 85 percent with the class Valedictorian, Kyle Queer achieving a 96 percent.

We are very proud of these young men and women who endured the past five months of training and succeeded in their educational goals.