New recruits bring Salt Lake City Police Department closer to full staff

SALT LAKE CITY — Sixteen recruits graduated from the Salt Lake City Police Training Academy on Thursday. This development puts the department a step closer to being fully staffed.

The training lasts for six months and involves hundreds of hours of classroom topics, reality-based scenarios, defensive tactics, firearms training, crisis intervention and emergency vehicle operations.

The recruits officially became officers in front of family and friends. Cade Palmer was one of them…

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