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Local Students Getting Training In Police WorkTwo Connellsville college students will be getting the full treatment in law-enforcement work, seeing, hearing and experiencing every phase of law enforcement work from desk through patrol duties to jail doors.For the next eight weeks Ester Loughry of 430 E. Crawford Ave. and Jennifer DeOre of 221 E. Peach St. will be receiving first hand police training in conjunction with their-college major of law enforcement and corrections. Both are students at Penn State University’s main campus college of human development. Miss Loughry, a Cormells-ville Area High School graduate, Class of 1973. is in her mid-senior year and Miss DeOre, a Geibel High School graduate, Class of 1974, is in her junior year.Chief of Police Nicholas Stasia said this morning that law enforcement agencies across the nation—police departments, sheriffs offices, probation offices etc.— have been cooperating with colleges during the summer months by taking on students in that field of study and giving them on*the-job training.They will go on desk duty, ride patrol cars, walk a beat, and work with or observe operations of the city detective’s office. They will get to do everything a desk clerk, a policeman on duty, or any other law enforcement employe gets to do, or observe,” the chief said.Stasia added that he has received numerous applications From colleges for such training opportunities this summer. The requests came from many colleges and localities. “But we could onlv handle two, so we accepted two of our local girls,” Stasia said. He reflected that Connellsville in the past has accepted college students for the summer training periods. The students do not get paid for the time they put inlt;One of the things they will have to do is to prepare a thesis in which they will' include their personal opinions of changes they believe would be beneficial to the law enforcement agency as well as the community.Miss Loughry says she plans to go into correctional institution work, working mostly with juveniles. Miss DeOre also plans to work in corrections.This morning the two girls were given their orientation to police work by Chief Stasia and Sgt. Floyd Mathews who noted: “Yes, we also showed them our first class facilities (the jail cells) as well as the communications equipment. The orientation started in the present police headquarters in the old city hail building and the girls were scheduled to be guided through the new police headquarters in the new municipal building later today.They will also get to experience night duty, but that will be limited to desk work, no street work.
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jun 14, 1976
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