I find this interesting that Cheyenne does this for it's residents. They are a town of about 64,000 folks right on the cross roads of 2 interstates. Not considered a big town in Wyoming but one of our larger ones.

Any Texas towns offer anything like it ? I haven't heard of anything like this before.


https://laramielive.com/cheyenne-police-taking-applicants-for-citizens-police-academy-3/

Pretty common here

Our is 11 weeks twice a year and our junior police academy one week long , June and July

Cool.

Not very common up here from what I can see.

Sounds like a good idea.

We do it once a year here.

I went on quite a few one way ride alongs in my younger days

Nice

We do it with the Citizens Watch Patrol (CWP) here in Idaho Falls. There is a Citizens Police Academy (required) which provides all the introduction and indoctrination to how the department works. The CWP is different from any Reserve Officer type program, people are all volunteers and NOT armed, and all the volunteers are used for traffic control, event staffing, and other labor intensive activities that would waste armed officers from being out where they need to be. The department figures the volunteers save about half a million dollars a year, just in labor costs, over using officers.

Idaho Falls, Pocatello, and Blackfoot P.D's used to have Reserve Officer programs back in the 70's and 80's, where you could do ride alongs, were armed, and received about 100 hours of Academy training. These were heavily monitored, high liability, and proved costly to insure. I think that Blackfoot is the only one that still does it, and believe they have a cap on how many there can be.

Bonnevile County Sheriffs Office has the Search and Rescue, and Sheriff's Jeep Patrol that is volunteers, and does roughly the same thing. Initial training, monthly meetings and service hours, and is available to augment regular staffing in emergencies.

Several towns on the North side of DFW have something like this.

Yup, ours does. Have had it for several years now.

Just about every agency I know of offers this. We do at mine and once they graduate they become members of it and come help out on no refusal weekends. Obviously no LE work but the bring in food and drinks and offer to fix you a plate of food while your doing your report.

We have one going on right now, I have a class to teach next week.