By Jamie Berry | Transcript Staff Writer Apr 17, 2021
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Cadets in the Norman Police Departmentâs 59th academy pose outside the training center. The 11 cadets are attending 27 weeks of training, followed by 16 weeks of field training. A 12th man was hired from the University of Oklahoma Police Department and started field training. Photo Provided
The Norman Police Department recently hired 12 new cadets at the start of its 59th academy.
Lt. Lee McWhorter said 11 of the cadets started attending training classes April 5, and one man is now in field training because he was hired from the University of Oklahoma Police Department and previously went through NPDâs academy.
Robby Korth / StateImpact Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s House of Representatives passed a measure that would make it easier for teachers to have guns in the classroom, late Tuesday.
House Bill 2588, authored by Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, would do away with a requirement of 240 hours of training for teachers armed in a classroom from Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET). Instead, school boards would decide how much training an armed school employee would need to carry a firearm.
It passed 68-18.
The measure now moves to the senate, where a similar bill passed last year before it was derailed by COVID-19.
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