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Citizen's Police Academy
Detective Ken Severn
teaches Watertown resident Alice Fuchs, a member of the city’s Citizen’s
Police Academy, how to
use a firearm during a session at the Watertown Conservation Club.
2000
05 12 Graduation at Watertown Police Department's first-ever
Citizen's Police Academy, students of the class are saying they're glad they
enrolled.
"I think they did
great for the first year," student Alice Fuchs said of academy
coordinators. "I love this, and I didn't realize there was this much to
policing." Fuchs has been
interested in police work since 1967. That year she began helping rehabilitate
inmates at state prisons.
The 69-year-old woman
learned up-close about police on Saturday at the academy's eight-hour, hands-on
instruction session at the Watertown Conservation Club's rifle range.
Eighteen Watertown
residents make up the student body of the cost-free, 10-week class. Watertown
Crime Prevention Officer Andy Gee and Capt.
Tom Killmon are academy coordinators and aim
to teach the students about police operations while offering them the
opportunity to meet the force.
Class member Shelly
Nelson, 26, works with Watertown's Project J.O.I.N. (Juvenile Offenders
Involvement Network), which seeks to reintegrate juvenile offenders into the
community. She said the class is
significant because citizens in the class have the opportunity to discover that
police officers are in their line of work because they care about helping
people.
"The most
important thing is that this class shows police do the job because they care
about people.
2014
04 21 CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY
FISH FRY
A fish fry and
fundraiser is being sponsored by the Citizen Police Academy Alumni (CPAA) on Friday
from 5-8 p.m. at Turner Hall. More than
50 prizes have been donated by businesses and individuals for a bucket raffle
and silent auction. Attendees need not
be present to win. A 50/50 raffle will
also be held during the event.
Proceeds from the fundraiser
will assist in purchasing updated exercise equipment for the Watertown Police
Department’s fitness room and will also support the CPAA as it assists the
department’s community events.
2017
04 20 CPAA FUNDRAISER AND
FISH FRY
The Watertown Citizen
Police Academy Alumni will hold a fish fry fundraiser Friday at Turner Hall. The organization has already received
donations from area businesses along with statewide tourist and children
attractions totaling more than $8,000 in support of the fundraiser.
Some of the silent
auction items include a motorcycle riding academy training course certificate,
three-month fitness memberships, Aquatic Center family pass, "Made in
Watertown" items, "Shop Watertown" certificates, a horse drawn
carriage ride, among others.
This year, proceeds
from the fundraiser will go towards the police officers' out of pocket costs of
a bullet proof safety vest, a carrier for the vest and a water bottle filler
station.
History of Watertown,
Wisconsin