{"id":27023,"date":"2019-01-14T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T01:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2019\/01\/15\/policeacademy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:10:12","slug":"policeacademy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/14\/policeacademy\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Partners with Lawrence PD to Offer Citizens Police Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/01\/201901-037-v2Lawrence-citizens-police-academy-Instagram-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19571\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/01\/201901-037-v2Lawrence-citizens-police-academy-Instagram-graphic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a> is now co-sponsoring the City of Lawrence\u2019s Citizens Police Academy, a six-week program that gives local residents and business owners an overview of the police department and the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The academy will be held Saturdays, February 9 through March 16, for one-and-a-half to two hours each week.\u00a0 It is offered free of charge and Northern Essex faculty, staff, and students are invited to apply.\u00a0 This is a pilot program and 10 to 15 participants will be accepted.\u00a0 Participants must commit to attend the entire program.<\/p>\n<p>Many police departments offer citizens academies as a way to build transparency and trust and strengthen community and civic engagement.\u00a0 Graduates of the program will have a better understanding of the system, be familiar with local resources, and learn leadership skills in workshops taught by department volunteers and other elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in applying, should contact Officer Abel Cano, <a href=\"mailto:acano@lawpd.com\">acano@lawpd.com<\/a> or call 978 794-5900, ext. 595, or visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawpd.com\/709\/2018-Citizen-Police-Academy\">website<\/a> and complete an application.\u00a0 The deadline for applying is Friday, February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Essex Community College is now co-sponsoring the City of Lawrence\u2019s Citizens Police Academy, a six-week program that gives local residents and business owners an overview of the police department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":27025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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