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Officer Josh Marrs, who helps oversee the academy, said students enjoy hands-on learning exercises such as crime scene investigation, making arrests, going to the shooting range and performing traffic stops.

Officer LaDarian Brown, the department性视界传媒檚 public information officer, said the junior academy helps the police department recruit local youth who are interested in becoming law enforcement officers in the future. The department operates its own professional police academy, too.

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Kadence Moynihan, 14, is from Pittsburg and hopes to become a police officer. During the academy, she has learned how to apply a tourniquet to stop bleeding, how to handcuff people and how to perform traffic stops. (Stops for felony offenses are more interesting, she said.)

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The police department announces the academy dates, times and signup information each year. To learn more, visit .