{"id":397,"date":"2013-03-28T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=397"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:06:45","slug":"openings-available-for-yakima-police-department-citizens-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/openings-available-for-yakima-police-department-citizens-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Openings Available for Yakima Police Department Citizens Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YPD Sergeant Linda Watts \u2013 575-6158<\/p>\n<p>Communications &amp; Public Affairs Dir. Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now being accepted for the Yakima Police Department Citizens Academy that will take place each Tuesday night over an eight-week period beginning April 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We used to conduct citizens academy sessions regularly, but we haven\u2019t had the resources to offer one for several years,\u201d said YPD Sergeant Linda Watts, who is coordinating the revived training course.\u00a0 &#8220;It\u2019s a great opportunity to give citizens a better understanding of the job police officers perform and the dangerous situations they face on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Results of the 2012 Yakima Citizens Survey indicated that community members expected the City to take steps to improve public safety.\u00a0Bringing back the Yakima Police Department Citizens Academy was included in the City\u2019s Strategic Plan as one part of that effort.<\/p>\n<p>The academy is free to the public and will consist of classroom sessions that will run for two hours each over the course of the eight-week program.\u00a0 The classes will be held in the YPD Special Operations Building located at 207 S. 3rd Street. \u00a0An optional Saturday class at a shooting range is also part of the academy.<\/p>\n<p>The academy will cover a wide range of law enforcement activities including gang enforcement, the YPD K-9 program, traffic enforcement, firearms, the YPD SWAT team, forensics, narcotics, criminal investigations, and the operational structure of the YPD.<\/p>\n<p>SAFE Yakima Valley Communities is providing financial assistance for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Academy participants must be at least 18 years old and pass a background check.\u00a0 Enrollment is on a first come basis and because of the background check requirement, applications should be submitted by Friday, April 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are available at the Yakima Police Department or by contracting Sergeant Linda Watts by phone at 575-6158 or by e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:linda.watts@yakimawa.gov\">linda.watts@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Clean-Up-News-Release-pdf.pdf\">Community Clean Up News Release pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: YPD Sergeant Linda Watts \u2013 575-6158 Communications &amp; Public Affairs Dir. Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 &nbsp; Applications are now being accepted for the Yakima Police Department Citizens Academy that will take place each Tuesday night over an eight-week period beginning April 9th. &#8220;We used to conduct citizens academy sessions regularly, but we haven\u2019t had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}