The Abbotsford Police Department held its annual Junior Police Academy (JPA) all this week.
Twenty-six Grade 11 and 12 students from various Abbotsford high schools spent their spring break learning what it’s like to be a police officer.
The students were carefully selected from a group of over 50 applicants to participate in the program, which teaches basic law, police control tactics/self-defence, and even a day at the firearm range.
The week-long program ends with the students applying what they have learned during a scenario-based training day where they will be challenged as “police officers” to resolve problems.
“This is a week we always really look forward to,” said Const. Steve Kern, youth squad officer and JPA co-ordinator.
“It provides students a glimpse of what it’s like to be a police officer by testing their abilities as if they were one.”
For more information, visit abbypd.ca/Junior-Police-Academy