{"id":193565,"date":"2020-03-09T07:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193565"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:30:01","slug":"citizen-police-academy-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193565","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Police Academy starts March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4365 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JPDbadge-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Another \u00a0Jamestown Citizen&#8217;s Academy begins in March. The 10-week course provides \u00a0members of the community a chance to learn a little more about the day-to-day operations of law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>Academy classes are planned from 6 pm to 9 pm for 10 Thursdays beginning March 26. Each week has a lesson plan and a different instructor from the Jamestown Police Department and other law enforcement and first responder agencies in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Officer Andrew Staska who is \u00a0one of the coordinators of the academy, says, &#8220;We want people to have a good understanding of everything we do and why we do it.\u00a0 The biggest thing is, we want to build connections between us and the community. &#8220;The lessons will range from criminal law, traffic law, the use of force, tasers, firearms, special operations teams and crime scene investigation. It is a set curriculum &#8230; but we let people ask a lot of questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications for the citizen&#8217;s academy are being accepted through March 20<\/strong> and are available at the Jamestown Police Department located in the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Center and Jamestown City Hall. The program will accept about 20 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants under the age of 18 will be accepted with signed consent from a parent or guardian. Anyone attending the academy should be in reasonably good physical condition and will be subject to a background check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Another \u00a0Jamestown Citizen&#8217;s Academy begins in March. The 10-week course provides \u00a0members of the community a chance to learn a little more about the day-to-day operations of law enforcement operations. Academy classes are planned from 6 pm to 9 pm for 10 Thursdays beginning March 26. Each week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193593,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193565\/revisions\/193593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}