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2018 Albany Citizen Police Academy Application is Available

By albanyhousing | Published: February 26, 2018

SPRING, 2018
CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY APPLICATIONS

On behalf of Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Acting Albany Police Chief Robert Sears, we invite our fellow citizens to apply to the Albany Citizen Police Academy. Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Spring, Citizen Police Academy, scheduled to start on Wednesday, March 28th, 2018. This is a fourteen week course which continues on each subsequent Wednesday evening. Classes will meet from 6pm – 9pm @ The Albany Police Training Center (Large Classroom), 223 Washington Ave Ext. Albany, NY 12205.

ABOUT THE ALBANY CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY

Albany’s Citizen Police Academy is a unique opportunity for citizens who live in or work in the City of Albany. The goal of the Academy is to increase understanding between citizens and police through education.
Through the weekly classes, the police will hope to dispel suspicions and misconceptions and increase rapport between the citizens of Albany and the police. The citizens, in turn, make officers more aware of their feelings and concerns.

A few examples of presentation and topic
discussions include:

  • Community Policing
  • Police / Community Relations
  • First Responder / CPR
  • Forensic Investigations Unit
  • Criminal Investigations Unit
  • Children and Family Services Unit
  • Basic Crime Prevention

Much time and energy has been devoted to the development of an informative overview of the fundamentals of police operations, which are instructed by both management and nonmanagement representatives from the Albany Police Department. Students will typically be meeting once a week for three hours for fourteen weeks. Instruction will be presented by subject matter experts and will include virtually every aspect of police work ranging from a study of the New York State Penal Law, demonstrations of many different law enforcement tools (canine unit, mounted unit, etc.), narcotics investigations, computers, firearms, etc. The classes will include lectures, tours, demonstrations, and hands on participation.

ALBANY CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY

Citizens (limited to those who live in or work in the City of Albany) should complete the following application (Click HERE for the fillable application in PDF format) and return it to the Albany Police Department Training Unit at:

training_unit@albany-ny.org

or by mailing the completed form to:

Albany Police Training Unit
223 Washington Avenue Ext., Albany, NY 12205
518.452.2837 Fax: 518.456.0459

**Class size is limited and applicants should not delay.**

2018 Albany Citizen Police Academy Application Fillable

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A Message from Citizen Action of New York

By albanyhousing | Published: February 12, 2018

We hope that you can join us for this historic event! Fast Food Workers in the Fight for $15, Citizen Action of New York, local clergy, labor leaders and community members will join together in Albany for the 50th Anniversary of the Historic Memphis Sanitation Strike and to announce the Fight for $15 joining the Poor People’s Campaign.

WHEN: Monday, February 12, 2018 at 12 pm at the State St. entrance of the NYS Capitol & 5:30 pm at the McDonalds at 391 Central Ave. in Albany.

Fast food workers in the Fight for $15 will hold a press conference at the State Capitol at 12 noon and a rally and protest at the local McDonald’s on Monday, February 12th joining protests stretching coast to coast on the 50th anniversary of the historic Memphis sanitation strike, which became a rallying cry of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Albany workers will vow to continue the sanitation workers’ fight for higher wages and union rights and show their support for cooks and cashiers across the Mid-South who will be striking Monday for $15 and union rights. Local fast-food workers will also announce Monday they will participate in six weeks of direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience beginning Mother’s Day as part of the new Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, uniting two of the nation’s most powerful social movements in a common fight for strong unions to lift people of all races out of poverty.

The protests and strikes across the country will culminate in a 1,500-person march in Memphis from Clayborn Temple to City Hall – the same route sanitation workers walked 50 years ago – led by strikers in the Fight for $15 from across the Mid-South, Memphis sanitation workers who participated in the 1968 strike, and prominent labor and civil rights leaders.

The Memphis sanitation strike began on Feb. 12, 1968, when hundreds of Black men went on strike for recognition of their union, a local of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and demanded a raise to $2 an hour – the equivalent of $15.73 today.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both events.

In solidarity,

Jamaica

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