WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office welcomed a new class of detention academy graduates on Thursday.
The 16 detention deputies completed 10 weeks of rigorous coursework, including policies and procedures, legal issues, computer systems, defensive tactics and other basic academy training.
“We had to get tased, pepper-sprayed — not fun, I don’t think any of us liked it,” academy graduate Layken Clark said. “We had a bunch of ground fighting, we had a midterm and the final. We had to study for those, because it was a lot.”
Following graduation, the deputies will begin field training, working alongside veterans already working in the facility…