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APD's Newest Recruits Attend Day One of Academy TrainingThe 29 recruits face six months of training in the academy and an additional 14 weeks of in-the-field training before they are ready to hit Anchorage streets.
Anchorage police say they need more help maintaining law and order on the streets.
The city took a big step toward that goal Monday by holding the first police academy in three years. Police Chief Mark Mew says it couldn’t come soon enough. Since 2008, the city has lost about 50 officer positions. Some spots opened up when officers retired. Others were spots that were never filled and then eliminated. Mew says if everyone in this current class graduates the city will be about half way to the number of officers it had just three years ago. The current class of police recruits includes 27 men and two women, winnowed down from more than a thousand who applied. Many of them have had some kind of police experience before, including one would-be officer who was actually the head of the Anchorage FBI office for several years. Kevin Fryslie says he wanted a new career after he retired from the FBI last year at the mandatory age of 57. “There’s no age limit,” says Fryslie. “As long as you are physically fit and you are mentally capable of performing the job and you make it through you can be hired.” July Lam is one of only two women in the class but says, if anything, that will make it more challenging for her in a “good way.” The recruits are about to undergo six weeks of training at the academy then another three and a half months in the field. The soonest they could be on the streets is sometime next summer. |
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Common Sence said on Friday, Oct 28 at 3:34 PM
Never seen so many cops???? Ever been you Europe, Japan, or South Korea? America has a small Military and Police Footprint based on its population. try being informed instead of echoing something that sounds "trendy" and "cool" remember it's easy to say whats popular and agree with the masses. Not so easy to take the high road and look at the facts.
76021666jjj said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 3:53 PM
classes include: revenue collecting, lying, beating people, falsifying police reports, planting evidense, lying in court, bad attitudes towards citizens, crime and how-to profit from it, oppression, incompetence, ignoring real crime,and doughnuts!!!!
75860028Anonymous said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 3:46 PM
we live in a police state. welcome to the new amerika
75859762Anonymous said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 11:41 AM
iseedumbpeople must sit in front of a mirror all day! anchorage cops are the worst criminals in the state. roided out robots that do not serve and protect, they just collect revenue. and why are they all the way on the knik bridge, thats more eagle river than anchorage. to collect more revenue!
75848162Iseedumbpeople said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 10:37 AM
Wow guys! Half of the number they gave makes up the detectives and all the other "support" groups of the dept. In reality you have about 160 cops on the street to cover all three shifts, 7 days a week. There is about 24 cops per shift to cover from the Knik River Bridge to about Indian. APD is way below the national average for a city with this population. Try being informed because you say things you don;t know anything about....
75844468Maureen said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 10:11 AM
I think they just want everyone on "record", so that they can keep track of everyone. This is not a democracy anymore.
75842718Bob said on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 10:02 AM
Yikes. How many cops does Anchorage need? I've never seen so many cops anywhere in my whole life. Maybe we should spend all our tax money on cops.
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