Program offers citizens inside look at police work.Byline: The Register-Guard Ever wonder how police officers get chosen? How detectives investigate a crime? What community policing is? Eugene residents can learn all this and more at the 16th annual Citizens' Police Academy from Sept. 4 to Dec. 11. The academy is a free, 13-week series of classes designed to educate the public about Eugene police operations. It meets weekly from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursdays, plus three Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Most classes are held at the Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' Training Center at West Second Avenue and Chambers Street Chambers Street is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, at south of the Old Town. The street is named after William Chambers of Glenormiston, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who was the main proponent of the 1867 Edinburgh Improvement Act, which gave permission for the street's . Interested citizens must live or work in Eugene and be at least 19 years old. They can have no felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. convictions and no misdemeanor misdemeanor, in law, a minor crime, in contrast to a felony. At common law a misdemeanor was a crime other than treason or a felony. Although it might be a grave offense, it did not affect the feudal bond or take away the offender's property. By the 19th cent. arrests within the past year. Applicants must complete an application and a release allowing a criminal background check. The forms are available at the Police Department, 777 Pearl St., Room 107; the West University Public Safety Station at East 13th Avenue and Alder alder (ôl`dər), name for deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Alnus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), widely distributed, especially in mountainous and moist areas of the north temperate zone and in the Andes. Street; the Whiteaker Public Safety Station at West Fifth Avenue and Blair Boulevard; the City Center Public Safety Station at West 11th Avenue and Olive Street; or the Emergency Service Training Center at West Second and Chambers. Or, call 682-2751 to have the application and release mailed to you. |
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