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7 aed ee ae a promoting adequate training and profoasinnal standards anong law enforconont arencies. T:0 Acadeny, which now has ovor 2,000 craduntes, provides inotruction to selected police offfcera in a variety of Melds, inclucing firearns, finrorprints, Laboratory facilities, Juvenile delinquoncy, and techniques of arrests, Those nen, in turn,” after craduation, conduct schools for thoir fellow officore. tie estimate that tho training civen the Acadeny gradnates has been made avariable to more than 100,000 police officora. | | Unfortunately, the National Acadeny can accomodate only a wory smal) porcontaco of the men enrared today in law enforcement work, For this reason, the Fal, through Field Police Training Schoole, offors instruction 4n crine detection methods to officers in their om localities — the training is brought directly to then, In the 1949 fiecal year, ending June 30, 1949, for example, the FSI, at tho request of Local apencies, pirticipated in 1,510 local polica training achoola with on estimated attendance of 75,500 officors. T1a56 schools, conductod in each of our $51 field divisions, have bean hichl; suecessful, They have piven law enforcement officers = officcra fron very s2ill departnents or officers who are unatlo to attend the National- Academy = the bonofit of instruction in crime detection problems, ‘Thess men have been highly apsreciative = they enthusiastically join in the Aiscussion and ask many questions, Those officors are on the front line of crine - when thoy return home in the evening they may run into a dangerous murderer or be called upon to stop @ hich powred Sutomobile and nake an arrest. ‘They know that an item of knowlodce cained in those Field Police Training Schools may that nicht, tomorrow, or the ne: day save their liv Instruction in these schools, which may lest ono, tro, or three days, or poriaps @ wook, is normally civen by FRI Agents and National Acadony praduates. The school ma: eonsist only of menbora of @ single police dopart=aont, 4 city, or may be a recional school, that is, officara coming from a nunber of police -2<