The Evansville Police Department in partnership with the Evansville Police Department Foundation will present another session of the extremely popular Citizen’s Academy beginning on Tuesday, September 10th. The Citizen’s Academy will run for ten weeks and end on November 10th. In an effort to keep the Citizen’s Academy fresh and in line with the department’s capabilities and staffing a session on the polygraph and its uses has been added.
The goal of the Citizen’s Academy is to give members of the community an inside look at the various units of the police department and to create better understanding and communication between citizens and police through education.
This is an opportunity for the citizens of the community to know more about the men and women who are protecting their community and why they make the decisions they do. The Academy also presents an opportunity for the citizens to voice any comments or concerns directly to the department.
Members of the department will be instructing each session and will be covering topics relevant to the units in which they work.
The Citizen’s Academy is offered in the Spring and in the Fall of each year. Sessions are held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday evenings for ten consecutive weeks.
As a result of requests from the public the Citizens Academy was increased last year to ten weeks with the addition of four new presentations from the Juvenile Unit, Financial Crimes Unit, Crime Prevention Unit and Public Affairs with an informal Q & A session on graduation night with the Chief Bolin, Vanderburgh Prosecutor Nick Hermann and Mayor Lloyd Winnecke. There is limited seating, so register early and please share with anyone who might be interested. This program is free of charge.
For registration form—or for more information—contact Debbie Baird with the Evansville Police Department Training Unit at (812) 436-4948 or email at dbaird@evansvillepolice.com or go to http://www.evansvillepolice.com/citizens-academy.
