Citizen Police Academy Class Curriculum

• Welcome, overview and department tour
• Firearm safety
• Drugs & Gangs
• Traffic Law, Traffic Stop Practical
• K9 Information and demonstration
• First Aid/Stop the Bleed
• Use of Force/Defensive Tactics
• Crime Scene Processing/Fingerprint development
• Crime Prevention
• Citizen Response to Active Shooter & Shooting Simulator
• Dispatchers: The true first responders, GGCPD speakers, and Policing in Today's World -review of course's required reading assignment.
  
• Officer Ride Along (minimum of 1 ride along)

Class order is subject to change.
 
Additional Information

• Classes are held weekly on Tuesday night from 6 PM to 9 PM.
• Classes are primarily held at the Lawrenceville Police Department.  Other locations are visited as necessary.
• Attendance of each session is critical to fully benefit from participation in the Citizens Police Academy.
• A maximum, 2 missed sessions will be allowed in order to receive a "completion" of the program.
• Dress is business casual.  Jeans are allowed.  Shorts, tank tops, halter tops, etc. are not permitted.