MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – It’s been a grueling 14-week journey, but the recruits in the 81st class of the Mobile Police Academy now are ready to join their law enforcement agencies.
Twenty-two graduates took their oaths Tuesday at a ceremony at Cottage Hill Baptist Church. The class was split roughly evenly between the Mobile Police Department and other agencies throughout the region.
For Mairely Hernandez, graduation represented the culmination of a dramatic pivot in her career plans. She went from attending college with plans of becoming a nurse to serving as a Mobile police officer…