{"id":267,"date":"2022-09-09T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police-draft\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:31:54","slug":"cpa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/cpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens&#8217; Police Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold\">Our Citizen&#8217;s Police Academy is now accepting applications fo<\/em><em><strong>r the 2026-2027 academic year. View the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2075\/CPA-Schedule-2026-2027.pdf\">class schedule here<\/a>, and fill out an<\/strong><\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Gizg8rtENjv4Ltgj7\"><em><strong>application here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Rhode Island Police Department sponsors an annual Citizens&#8217; Police Academy &nbsp;The academy is held for approximately fifteen weeks. &nbsp;The purpose of the academy is to create better understanding and communication between the police department and the community through education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">URI students, faculty and staff are eligible to apply and the academy is open to a limited number of people who will be selected after a background screening which may include&nbsp;university conduct screening, criminal history check, personal reference check and interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The courses are designed to move quickly and include interesting information and \u00a0many classes consist of practical, hands-on training. \u00a0 A ride-a-long with the URI Police Officer while on duty will be available during the program. \u00a0Some of the topics that will be discussed include vehicle law, DUI Law, narcotics, patrol procedures, K-9 demonstration, and crime scene forensics. \u00a0View the class schedule\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2075\/CPA-Schedule-2026-2027.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/the-uri-citizens-police-academy-gives-students-exposure-to-the-workforce\/\">Check out this article on our Citizens&#8217; Academy!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:tquaratella@uri.edu\">Lt. Tom Quaratella<\/a> or apply&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Gizg8rtENjv4Ltgj7\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Citizen&#8217;s Police Academy is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. View the class schedule here, and fill out an application here! The University of Rhode Island Police Department sponsors an annual Citizens&#8217; Police Academy &nbsp;The academy is held for approximately fifteen weeks. &nbsp;The purpose of the academy is to create better understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4690,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}