Correctional officers graduate from training academy
Correctional Employee Initial Training Class 242 graduated from the Steven R. Floyd Sr. Training Academy March 26. SUBMITTED PHOTO April 3, 2021
A class of 18 correctional officer cadets and one correctional training instructor from the 242nd Correctional Employee Initial Training Class graduated from the Steven R. Floyd Sr. Training Academy March 26. The socially distanced ceremony was attended by DOC leaders, colleagues and family members.
The cadets took their oaths of office and joined Delaware’s largest law enforcement agency after completing a rigorous three-month course of classroom and hands-on instruction in multiple subject areas including inmate supervision, defensive tactics, emergency preparedness, weapons and chemical munitions, report writing, behavioral health training, CPR/Basic First Aid and interpersonal communication skills.
29 Dec 2020
A GoFundMe page has been set up to support a homeless man who saved all the animals at a Georgia shelter after a fire broke out.
The fundraiser, created by Frank Cote, was set up to be in the best interests of 53-year-old Keith Walker, who risked his life to save several cats and dogs trapped inside the W-Underdogs shelter on December 18 when a fire broke out in the facility’s kitchen.
“This is truly a wonderful thing happening here. This small community of people, giving whatever they can afford and in some cases, what they cannot afford, to reward a heroic and unselfish act of a man who has struggled most of his life,” Cote posted Monday in an update to the fundraiser, which has raised more than $39,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.