Registration for the next State Police’s cadet class is now open. The deadline to register for Cadet Class 109 is January 6th. Captain Johnnie Brown says after that date, they will select the best candidates from those who registered, and there is no set number.
“If we start a class with 33 people, that’s what we end up with. If it’s 50-plus people, that’s what we end up with. But we don’t set a specific number,” Brown said.
Captain Brown says it will take several months to select the class, and the class will take up almost the entire second half of next year, all of which is paid.
“The class takes 24 weeks to complete, so we’ll start June 28th and finish December 11th,” Brown said.
Brown says the class takes that long because there’s a lot to cover.
“That includes physical fitness, which we hope that people are doing prior to. Also, those leadership skills and then any advanced training that may be required including things like de-escalation, crash investigations and so forth,” Brown explained.
Candidates must be at least 21 years old and have either two years’ experience as a police officer, 60 college credit hours, or any two-year combination of those two. They can also qualify with three years of military service.
