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The Greenville Police Department completed its 2013 Citizen’s Police Academy on November 11, graduating 16 people.  The Citizen’s Police Academy is an opportunity for City residents to learn about the inner workings of the Police Department and to gain an understanding of police operations.   The academy gives our citizens first-hand information on how and why the Department operates, and it provides an excellent opportunity for the citizens to interact with police officers.

The academy is a ten-week program which provides the community first-hand information on the role of police officers in the Greenville Police Department.  Attendees meet once each week from 7 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The program involves both classroom and interactive instruction. Participants are given the same information that police recruits and officers receive.

Graduates experience a variety of law Enforcement related topics over a ten week period, such as:

·         Hot Spot Policing

·         Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

·         Community Liaison Program

·         Citizens on Patrol program

·         Forensics (including hands-on latent fingerprint and lifting and analysis)

·         The criminal investigations process

·         Canine Unit demonstrations

·         Animal Control Unit overview

·         Code Enforcement

·         Crisis Intervention Unit

·         Street Crimes Unit and field operations as a patrol officer

·         Narcotics enforcement

·         Traffic Safety Unit (explored the North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety

     Commission BAT MOBILE)

·         Real time firearms & drivers safety scenario simulators

·         Ride-along with police officers

The Department will host its next Citizen’s Police Academy in the spring of 2014.  Persons interested in participating may contact the Crime Prevention Unit for more information at 252-329-4339.