Milford Citizens Academy Graduation Ceremony for 8 Graduates

The Milford Police Department hosted its graduation ceremony for the 8 Police Citizens Police Academy on Wednesday evening, May 20, at the Milford Police Regional Training Facility located at 65 Devonshire Rd. in Milford.

The class consisted of Milford residents, business owners and educators and students from our public and private high schools including Jonathan Law, Foran, Academy of Our Lady of Mercy — Lauralton Hall, Platt Technical High School and Boys & Girls Club of Milford.

Participants went through 12 weeks of sessions involving both classroom and hands on training, exposing them to a variety of law enforcement activities such as demonstrations of K-9 teams, SCUBA and SRT teams, as well as technology used by the department.

Learning how to lift fingerprints and driving in an emergency vehicle-driving simulator were just a few more of the interesting topic areas that the participants were exposed to. In addition, participants went with a police officer on a ride along during the patrol officer’s shift.

In attendance at the ceremony were the graduates and their families, police commissioners, elected city officials and members of the previous sessions of the Citizens Academy including our Citizens Academy Alumni group.

Anyone interested in their next session tentatively scheduled for 2016 should visit their website later this year for information regarding the program and applications.