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54th State Police
Basic Tr. School
The 54th State Police Basic Training School convened November 15 at Headquarters near Richmond with the distinction of being the first such ?roup to train while another school is still in progress, Colonel H. W. Burgess, the Department’s Superintendent, announced today.
The School, consisting of 43 conditionally appointed troopers, will be conducted in the *ame facilities in which a class nf 57 matriculated July 26 and will graduate December 17. rhe new class will graduate \pril 14, 1972.
The 21 weeks of instruction will call for both classroom and field training. Classes, ranging from an hour on the national and state traffic accident picture to 54 on the Motor Vehicle Code, will number 154 ind hours of instruction will total 902
Immediately upon employment, a conditional appointed trooper is assigned to a field station where he works with an experienced trooper in the roles rtf student and observer. He remains there until the next Basic Training School convenes but must have a minimum of such training.
Colonel Burgess explained that the running of two schools at once cuts down on the time a man must spend in the field and will get him on the highway quicker and at less expense to the State. He said that the Department hopes to conduct five Basic Schools every two years instead of the present four. Dual classrooms make this operation possible, since every man in a class takes the same courses at the same time.
He concluded in saying that some 60 trooper vacancies exist and that any young man interested in filling one of them can get all necessary information from any State Police office or any member of the Department.
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