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Calcasieu Parish Regional Law Enforcement Academy
The function of the Calcasieu Parish Regional Law Enforcement Academy is to coordinate and plans law-enforcement POST-approved training programs for recruits and in-service training for a five parish region. (Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis). The training academy staff teaches firearms, defensive tactics and law enforcement academics.
Cadets who attend 10 week law enforcement training at the Academy will complete a training course of 360 hours which includes the minimum required 320 that is mandated by the Louisiana peace officers standard training core curriculum and an additional 40 hours to obtain certification in standardized field sobriety testing and intoxilyzer
5000.
Pre-tests are done on cadets prior to admission into the
academy, which include blood pressure and pulse rate checks. If they pass, then they must do stretches, sit-ups, push-ups, 220 yard run, and an obstacle course. Only if they pass all of the above will they be permitted to continue. During the 10 weeks the cadets will go from classroom teaching and testing environment, to outside doing the shotgun course, range practice, combat shooting, multiple target shooting, defensive tactics to police driving, just to name a few things. At the end of their 10 weeks of training, they will take their POST test. Upon passing their POST test, graduation will follow, at which time they return to their prospective departments, a certified police officer by the State of Louisiana.
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