This week started off with Interviews and Interrogations.  Unfortunately we didn’t get to interrogate Sharon Stone.  Either way, we picked up some good tips and tricks to getting information out of people, without the use of torture! 

    The next day we started with Motor Vehicle Theft Investigations.  And we ended the day with Courtroom Testimony.  It was interesting to say the least.  Some past instructor mis-communication made for a very angry captain.  But we sorted it all out in the end and had to go home and write a very lengthy incident report.

    The next two days, the last two of the academy, were great.  We started with Controlled Substances, and then Bombs, Explosives, and Arson.  We had a lot of fun joking about drugs.  And our instructor for bombs even booby trapped a students desk during our break with a trip line and a bomb (it beeped instead of exploding).  He never saw the trip line and set off the bomb.  It was great.

    And for the final day of the academy we began with Robbery and Burglary.  But we ended with sex offenses.  Yes, the last class for our academy was sex offenses.  And the instructors were nice enough to get by the rape and child molestation lessons first (not fun stuff) so we could then be all childish and goofy and spend the rest of the day acting like 2nd graders as we studied the lesser parts of sex crimes, the more humorous parts (bestiality, sodomy, etc.)  It was definitely a fun note to end our classroom lessons of the police academy on.

    Finally, on the last day of the academy, we took a test, and that was it.  I scored a 96% on this test.  We then signed some paperwork, went over what would happen that night at graduation, and then left.  Two hour final day was a great reward.  We headed home to get our suits pressed and get arrangments made, for tonight we would graduate!