Alberta is getting its Police Academy
Posted Feb 19, 2011 10:03 am.
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Alberta is getting its police academy.
Premier Ed Stelmach has announced a long-delayed training center, based in Fort Macleod, is going ahead four years after ground was supposed to have been broken on the project. Now the academy, which according to the Calgary Herald will cost between $120 and $150-Million-dollars, should see a ground-breaking ceremony in the summer of 2012.
When it’s up and running, the school will train 14-hundred officers a year including police, fish & wildlife and corrections officers, and according to Premier Stelmach perhaps Sheriffs and members of the R.C.M.P.
Besides basic training, the center will be fully-equipped for advanced and specialized training.
The project has been on hold because of sky-rocketing construction costs during the recent boom times, and then budget concerns during the subsequent recession.
