ACADEMY
Reserve officer recruits attend the Phoenix Police Department Academy. To accommodate career job demands, the academy is held two weekday evenings from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m., and on Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The academy consists of 620 hours of state-mandated peace officer certification training, and it takes approximately 7 months to complete the weekday evening and weekend schedule.
Academy training includes firearms, physical conditioning and a curriculum of law enforcement instruction. Academy training includes topics such as professionalism and ethics, criminal law, traffic law, patrol tactics, cultural diversity, constitutional law, community relations, criminal investigation, report writing, firearms, defensive tactics, first aid, physical conditioning and police driving. Academy training also qualifies for community college credit.
Upon graduation from the academy, reserve officers are certified as full-authority peace officers by the Arizona Police Officers Standards and Training Board (AZ-POST).
Following their graduation from the academy, fully-sworn reserve officers then ride and work with seasoned career police training officers, to complete the same field officer training program that career officers complete.
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