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Your teachers may want apples, but it's
the Corps that want you!
Serving Your Community Gets You Big Bucks
By Lynda Kessler
July 2001
The CollegeBound Network NewsClick --
In a national effort to motivate highly qualified young people (like
you!) to serve as police officers for four years or more, the Police
Corps is offering scholarships of up to $7,500 a year to participating
students.
The Police Corps program is open to all races,
men and women, as long as you are seeking a baccalaureate degree
from a public or non-profit college or university full-time. The
Corps requires that you serve four years
as well as complete a 16-to 24-week training program.
"This basic police training is intended
to teach the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to effective
service on community patrol, develop physical, moral, and analytical
capabilities, and learn self-discipline and organizational loyalty,"
states the Office of Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education.
While serving in the Corps, you are treated
like other officers of the same rank and tenure, and must abide
by the same rules and regulations. Once training is complete, you'll
serve on community patrols in areas of need nearby your place of
residence. However, should you decide you don't want to join permanently,
you can return to civilian life.
If you can follow procedures, are willing to lend your community
a helping hand, and plan to earn a college degree, looking into
the Police Corps program may do you justice.
To find out which state agency to which you should apply, call
(800) 421-6770. In some cases, your local police department or high
school guidance couselor's office may have applications.
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