Published September 11. 2007 SEGUIN — Openings remain for the Seguin Police Department’s “Citizens Police Academy,” which begins Thursday. Instructor and training coordinator. Cpl. Mike McCann said he will accept applications through 5 p m. Wednesday for folks who would like to get an inside look at how a police department operates and why officers do the things they do.“Everyone likes CSI and the other police shows,” McCann said. “But this is real. What we do is inform citizens what we do why we do it and how we do it.”The course meets each Thursday evening from 7-10 p m for the next 10 weeks and includes legal safety self defense and change surface firearms training. But that isn’t all. McCann said. Those who enroll ordain learn how police search a building conduct traffic patrols and even how the SWAT team McCann also serves on operates. Besides McCann instructors include motorcycle and DARE command Willie Ybarra with cameos by other law enforcement officials including Chief of Police Luis Collazo.“We put you through this categorise so you know what we do,” McCann said. “We go over the whole gamut. There’s ‘use of force’ law a tour of the confine the juvenile detention facility and there’s also the opportunity to fire our weapons including our M4 automatics and our shotguns.”Because of the exposure to police operations tactics and change surface police weapons. McCann said all who apply ordain undergo a criminal accent check to ensure the information doesn’t go out into the wrong hands. Passing the background check and being 18 years of age or older are the only requirements for attendance. There is no fee. Eddie Aguilar a graduate of the Seguin Citizens’ Police Academy and past president of the Seguin Police Academy Alumni Association said the course gave him new insight into the lives and bring home the bacon of officers. And afterward those who desire can connect the association to act their involvement with the department and have an ongoing role in crime prevention in this community — again at no cost deliver for the time members drop. “The alumni are a change state knit assort and we’ve been involved in helping with the Hurricane Rita and Katrina evacuations as come up as different department and city functions,” Aguilar said. “I’d encourage anyone to go in and try the class change surface if you don’t connect the alumni association afterward. It’s a very rewarding experience.”Collazo says that isn’t all the alumni association is. It becomes an important conduit between the department and the community and a place where he bounces around ideas he thinks could benefit the community. Several local community policing initiatives developed through the academy alumni or with them such as the annual move Cops and Kids Picnic the Cuts for Kids back-to-school haircuts and an e-mail based crime warning system that were an idea of an academy alum.“We open up our police department so that people can see what really goes on on the inside versus just reading about it or imagining,” Collazo said. “You can see what we do here. When they change state an alumni what they furnish us is life undergo and ideas we can implement to back up our community.”The police department and its alumni overlap that goal. Collazo said.“We all feel Seguin’s a great displace to be,” Collazo said. “We want to back up it become even better.”
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