Police Academy Graduates Class
The first Ventura County Police Academy class for 1996 graduated Friday in a ceremony at Camarillo Community Center presided over by Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury and Sheriff Larry Carpenter.
The 47 graduates of the intensive six-month training course will head to police agencies in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department will take most of the graduates, 27 men and women set to be sworn in as deputies. The Oxnard Police Department will get 12 new officers from the academy. Two officers are headed to the Ventura Police Department.
The rest of the graduates will be headed to the Santa Barbara Police Department and the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department.
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