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College of the Mainland, Texas City
A regional police training center has been conducted at the College of the Mainland in Texas City. The
first session of this school was conducted April 29 through May 24. The course content will be based on
the minimum curriculum and will include 160 classroom hours. The Commission assisted in conducting
the first course. Plans call for four of these courses a year, with shorter courses and seminars interspersed
between. The college will hire a coordinator for the school.

Vernon Police School
A regional police training school was conducted for the Vernon area. Unit one, based on the minimum
curriculum, was conducted April 8th through April 19th, and was coordinated by Mr. W. W. Burrow and
Fred Toler, consultants for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education;
the Vernon District Attorney, and the Department of Public Safety. Senator Jack Hightower and
Representative W. S. (Bill) Heatly participated in this school as guest instructors. This regional school
serves departments in Vernon, Chillocothe, Quanah, Childress, Paducah, Croswell, lMunday, Seymour,
and Electra. This school will also serve the sheriff’s departments in that area.

Amarillo Junior College
Another regional training school that is being organized will be located at Amarillo Junior College.
Chairman Glen McLaughlin participated in a planning meeting at Amarillo Junior College on March 5th.
Another meeting will be held in the near future to complete the plans for this area school.

INSTRUCTOR COURSES

The first of a series of police instructor courses was conducted at Howard County Junior College from
January 29 through February 9. Officers from Big Spring, Lubbock, Odessa, Midland, Brownfield, and
Snyder were enrolled in this course. Also, two men from the Department of Public Safety and one from
Webb Air Force Base were in attendance. Twenty-seven officers were enrolled and twenty-four
completed the course.

Another instructor course was conducted at North Central Texas Regional Police Academy at Arlington,
May 13 – 17, in cooperation with the Police Training Division, Engineering Extension Service, Texas A
& M University.

Other Commission sponsored police instructor courses are scheduled to be conducted at the College of
the Mainland in Texas, Texas A & M University in College Station, Lamar Tech at Beaumont, and East
Texas State University at Commerce.

CERTIFICATION
Surveys of nine Police Training Academies have been made, information collected, interviews conducted
with chiefs of police and instructors of the respective academies, and evaluation made of their training
material. These requests were processed on a “first come, first served” basis. The Commission, in its
regular quarterly meeting, May 2, 1968, certified the following police academies: Abilene Police
Academy; Dallas Police Academy; Texas Department of Public Safety Training Academy; Amarillo
Police Academy; Police Training Division, Engineering Extension Service, Texas A & M University;

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