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Posted by: kwflatbed

By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff | April 13, 2007
More than 80 recruits now at the Boston Police Academy will hit the streets in late May, about a month earlier than had been planned, because Commissioner Edward F. Davis wants more officers on the streets as soon as possible, officials said yesterday.
Superintendent Robert Harrington, who oversees the department's Bureau of Professional Standards and Development, said police officials were already reviewing ways to tighten the academy's schedule before learning that Davis wanted recruits on the streets immediately.
"It's a convergence of a couple of things: One, the commissioner wants to bring more bodies on the street for summer time," said Harrington. "Months ago we looked at the recruit curriculum, [and] there was some feeling that some of the courses were repetitive."
Harrington said the reduced training time would not affect the safety of officers or the public and will make the academy curriculum more efficient, while also bringing much-needed officers to Boston before summer begins.
He said his staff will continue to review the curriculum , but he expects the academy schedule to be reduced permanently to several weeks less than the 30 weeks it had been.

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...n_job_earlier/

Posted by: mikemac64

10 years ago the MCJTC curriculum was over the top. IN my suburban academy we had the same class 5 times. That's 200 hours. They called it different things like Community Policing, Beat and Community Profiling, etc, but the lectures were the same (Sire Robert Peel, OW Wilson, William Parker, August Vollmer, etc) then some of instructors would talk about themselves and their greatness. They could cut 6 weeks of fat off of any MPTC academy.

I heard the last academy group we had was working in a soup kitchen once a week. I understand the idea behind this, but why are taxpayers paying for their police recruits to work in a soup kitchen?

Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

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Originally Posted by mikemac64

10 years ago the MCJTC curriculum was over the top. IN my suburban academy we had the same class 5 times. That's 200 hours. They called it different things like Community Policing, Beat and Community Profiling, etc, but the lectures were the same (Sire Robert Peel, OW Wilson, William Parker, August Vollmer, etc) then some of instructors would talk about themselves and their greatness. They could cut 6 weeks of fat off of any MPTC academy.

I heard the last academy group we had was working in a soup kitchen once a week. I understand the idea behind this, but why are taxpayers paying for their police recruits to work in a soup kitchen?

I agree! You can teach academy police recruits police work in 16 weeks. the remaining should be with a respected department's training officer if needed. It's not rocket science.

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