FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Andrea Blakeway

Public Relations Specialist

Office: (504) 712-2244

April 28, 2009

Fourth KPD P.O.S.T. Academy class to graduate April 28

KENNER — Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway is proud to announce that the Kenner Police Department’s fourth P.O.S.T. Basic Training Academy class will graduate on Tuesday, April 28 at 10:00 a.m. at the Rivertown Exhibition Hall, 415 Williams Blvd., Kenner, LA. The academy began January 12, 2009. The graduates are as follows:

Officer Arnold Breaux, III (WPD), Officer Lance Bullock, Officer Jessica Cantrell, Officer Immanuel Cohen, Officer Charles Donovan, III, Officer Robert Drake, Jr. (WPD), Officer Keith Dykes (WPD), Officer Nicholas Engler, Officer Michael Habeney, Officer Joseph Lundy (TU), Officer Adam Matise, Officer Irma Morehouse, Officer Jeffery Rhodes (TU), Officer Aaron Savoie, Officer Brian Supan and Officer Priscilla Wilkinson

Kenner police officers who reach the academy have successfully completed a complex and stringent hiring process, which includes an extensive background investigation, physical fitness assessment, psychological exam and final selection through an oral Administrative Review Board process.

Students in the academy must abide by strict codes of discipline while they receive over 500 hours of training in various aspects of police work, such as legal issues, first aid, firearms, investigations, traffic services, patrol practices, report writing, community relations, self-defense tactics, physical training and defensive driving. P.O.S.T. requires a minimum of 320 hours of instruction.

Upon graduation, officers will be P.O.S.T. certified, meaning that they have taken and passed the P.O.S.T. exam and have sufficiently completed the basic training requirements. Louisiana law requires all police officers to be P.O.S.T. certified within one year of being hired. Upon completing the basic academy, new Kenner Police Officers must also successfully complete an 18-week field training program working with a veteran patrol officer until they are ready to assume routine patrol duties.

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