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BASIC POLICE TRAINING

Program Description

A partnership exists between Erie County's Division of Criminal Justice Services and Erie Community College. This partnership is designed to operate an academy focusing on basic and in-service training for sworn area police and peace officers.

Admission to the Basic Academy mandates that the candidate be a sworn police officer affiliated with a New York State certified law enforcement agency. Graduation from this program will result in issuance of an academic NYS Department of Education/SUNY certificate and fulfill partial requirements for the graduate to work as a police officer. Credit hours earned will also transfer into traditional college programs in police science-related areas.

Applicants must have completed 30 semester credit hours of collegiate instruction (45 quarter hours) with a quality point average of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 system. Candidates possessing a DD-214 indicating honorable discharge from the U.S. military may be waived of this requirement.