Training
The initial phase of a trooper recruit's academy training is known as the Alaska Law Enforcement Training program, or ALET. The ALET program is a residential, para-military style training program lasting approximately 15 weeks. The students attending an ALET class are a mixture of state trooper recruits, municipal police officers, state park rangers, and state fire marshals. All of these students receive the same course of instruction, regardless of which agency employs them.
Below is a listing of some of the subjects that make up the ALET curriculum:
- Constitutional and procedural law
- Search and seizure laws
- Alaska Criminal Code
- Officer safety skills
- Traffic laws
- Liquor laws
- Juvenile laws and procedures
- First aid and CPR
- Report writing
- Traffic stops
- Emergency vehicle operations
- Accident investigation
- Handgun training
- Shotgun training
- Building searches
- Crime scene investigations
- Interviewing techniques
- DUI enforcement
- Domestic violence crimes
- Sexual assault investigations
- Health and fitness
- Verbal communications
- Radio procedures
- Personal defensive tactics
In addition to the above subjects, ALET students also participate in daily physical fitness activities which may include strength training, running, and swimming. The ALET program uses a series of written tests and scenario-based exercises to measure the academic and practical performance of its students.
Read more about this topic: Alaska State Trooper Academy
Famous quotes containing the word training:
“The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)
“The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.”
—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)