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POLICE CORPS HOLDS GRADUATION CEREMONY ?
10 Officers Graduate From Justice Department
Program
PORTLAND, OREGON ? With the graduation today
of 10 police cadets, the Oregon Police Corps has added a total of 96 highly
trained Police Corps officers to community patrol throughout Oregon. Oregon is
one of 22 states and territories that recruit and train college graduates to
serve four years as community police officers through a program funded by the
Department of Justice?s Office of Justice Programs (OJP).
?The Police Corps program is an excellent
opportunity for highly motivated, qualified young people to receive federal
scholarships and serve our counties and cities as law enforcement officers,?
said Deborah Daniels, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice
Programs.? ?As we have seen community
policing take hold, our communities across the country are truly benefitting
from these officers.?
??????????? ?The Police Corps is a competitive college scholarship program for
students who
agree to work in a state or local police force for at least four
years.? Scholarship funds cover
education expenses, including tuition, fees, books, supplies, transportation,
room and board, and miscellaneous expenses.
Today?s graduates of the Oregon Police Corps
program will join six of the state?s local law enforcement agencies. Those
departments are the Corvallis Police Department, Eugene Police Department,
Gresham Police Department, Marion Police Department, Portland Police Bureau and
the Tigard Police Department.
The graduating Police Corps officers are
Christina Boak of Roseburg; Michael Bledsoe of Deer Island; Sean Donohue of
Gresham; David Smid of Eugene; Christine Thoma of Portland; Charles Lovell of
Brooklyn, New York; Andrew Pastore of Olympia, Washington; Robert Pickett of
Terre Haute, Indiana; Joseph Carmack of Oceanside, California; and Colleen
Arient of Nome, Alaska.
The graduation, which took place at Camp
Kuratli in Trestle Glen, Oregon, was the culmination of a rigorous 21‑week
Police Corps training program.? This
basic training teaches the knowledge, skills and attitudes police officers need
to serve on community patrol. At the conclusion of the training, all
participants must satisfy high performance standards for physical, mental and
emotional fitness. The police departments in which individual participants will
serve provide additional training as appropriate.
Students interested in the Police Corps apply to the lead agency of the
participating state in which they wish to serve. Applications are then
evaluated based upon defined selection criteria. States with Police Corps
programs are expected to advertise the availability of scholarships to the full
range of prospective participants and to make special efforts to encourage
applications from among members of all racial, ethnic and gender groups.??????????
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For additional information about the Oregon Police Corps program,
contact Captain Lynnae Berg at 503/517‑1361 or see http://www.oregonpolicecorps.com.?? Information is also available through OJP?s
Website at:? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/opclee.>
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For additional
information contact Sheila Jerusalem at 202/307-0703.??