HARRISBURG – State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller Tuesday announced that 60 individuals — 55 men and five women — have been invited to begin training next week to become Pennsylvania state troopers.
“These cadets will receive 25 weeks of intense classroom and physical training,” Miller said. “The men and women who complete this training will join an organization with a long record of distinguished service to the citizens of the commonwealth.”
Miller noted that Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s 2006-07 budget calls for raising the department’s complement to 4,673, the largest number of troopers in the state’s history.
“The governor’s commitment to public safety has been reflected in his efforts to give state police the personnel and equipment needed to maintain the department’s reputation as one of the finest law-enforcement agencies in the nation,” Miller said.
He said members of the class starting next week and a class of about 200 cadets scheduled to begin training in January 2007 will help the department fill the new positions. He noted that some cadets from those classes will fill existing or anticipated vacancies.
Maj. Robert R. Einsel, director of the State Police Bureau of Training and Education, will supervise the training at the State Police Academy in Hershey. The cadets reporting next week will be members of the 123rd class to be trained at the academy in Hershey since it opened in 1960.
Einsel said the prospective troopers are from 33 counties in Pennsylvania. Twenty-seven of the cadets are veterans of military service.
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