Five Northern Kentucky police officers graduated from the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training’s basic training academy on Thursday.
Twenty-eight other graduates went through the program that provides more than 800 hours of recruit-level instruction over 20 weeks.
The major training areas include patrol procedures, physical training, vehicle operations, defensive tactics, criminal law, traffic and DUI, firearms, criminal investigations, cultural awareness, bias-related crimes and tactical responses to crisis situations.
Here are the NKY graduates:
Andrew B. Fields, Florence Police Department
Anthony M. Harmon II, Florence Police Department
Shawn K. Hartman, Alexandria Police Department
Jonathan L. Herzog, Taylor Mill Police Department
Emanuel L. Slaughter, Florence Police Department
