JOB CORPS Grand Junction’s Peace Officers Academy, normally a class adults take, was turned into a one week camp for 15 youth recently, with two Collbran Job Corps students participating. Kayla Barrett and Joshua Swetnam spent a week of their Job Corps summer break at the class getting a first hand look at the intense process.
Students visited the Grand Junction police; with officers at the Mesa County sheriff’s office; and spent a day with Grand Junction’s district attorney, getting to see how a case is tried in court.
They also learned how to do building searches for high risk suspects, and classroom work on how the bomb squad and swat team operate.
In addition students saw what it takes to build a major case, and how that’s different from popular television shows. Barrett and Swetnam said it was a great experience.