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KU students get police training
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansas staff writer
Official law enforcement academy improves with increasing enrollment
Kansan staff writer
YODER — Most students probably do not know that there are 50 KU students who enroll in identical courses, who must be employed to enroll and who are in class from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.
These students are able to graduate eight weeks after their classes begin, and the cost of their schooling is high. Regardless of their financial need.
They attend the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, situated more than 180 miles southwest of Lawrence in Yoder, near Hutchinson. It is the only official training center for police officers in the state and has been affiliated with the University of Kansas since 1969.
The requirements for admission are that students have a high school diploma or a general education diploma. Students must be employed by a Kansas police or
sheriff's department. But the center is home to students with more credentials than that.
"We've had master's degrees.
"We've had doctors," said Larry Welch, director of the center. "We've seen students we see a cross section of everything."
The center, what was a U.S. Naval air base during World War II, never has been notably expanded or renovated, said Dick Burch, assistant director of the center. But that is changing.
For the first time, the center is receiving improvements that will alleviate overcrowding and improve the quality of instruction it can offer to prospective police officers, Burch said.
"Our academy stacks up against any academy in the nation," Burch said. "Now our facilities are catching up."
Students often must meet in a lecture hall barely big enough to hold
them, Burch said. A gymnasium the size of half a basketball court serves as a classroom for part of the day. Faculty members sit two to an office.
Some improvements already have been completed and paid for, as are the regular operating expenses of the center, by revenue from speeding and parking tickets. The center has been saving for five years to finance two stages of the improvements, at a cost of more than $1 million.
"I tell everybody we are the best bargain in the state of Kansas," Welch said. "Everything we've done, everything we've accomplished budget, when I think is incredible."
So far, traffic offenders already have paid for a full-size gymnasium, new staff offices and a break room for students.
Next year, new dormitory space will allow the center to bring its housing capacity from 70 to more
than 200 students, Welch said.
Welch said he hoped the new space would alleviate a waiting period that had been common for the past two years.
It also will allow the center to train more women. Now the center is equipped to house no more than six women.
Construction of dormitory space is one aspect of the center's improvement that may require outside financing, Welch said.
But the center deserves help, he said. And he is optimistic about getting the $3 million to $4 million needed for the project.
"Indeed, I might have to wage a Campaign NLETC," he said. "One way or another we're going to get it KU and Kansas law enforcement both have been committed and determined to having one of the best law enforcement academies in the nation."
KU police test drive 1990 Ford Taurus as department considers replacing fleet
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
Some KU police officers were able to do some shopping while performing their regular duties during the past week.
Today the department will return a 1990 Ford Taurus patrol car that patrol officers and administrative personnel have been test driving since last Tuesday to the Laird Noller Ford dealership in Topeka.
It can get to be a real hassle when you get into a tight situation and you have to get into a car that handles totally differently.
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Lt. John Mullens KU police officer
Lt. John Mullens of KU police said the department took the opportunity to test drive the car because the fleet of five cars in about a year
The department plans to test drive other cars before a decision is made. Mullens emphasized the need for
The 1989 Ford Crown Victoria's department now uses will all be replaced at the same time by one model of a new car. The current fleet, with four years of use, will have been replaced at 90,000 miles. Mullens said.
the police to become familiar with whatever car is finally bought.
"It can get to be a real hassle when you get into a tight situation and you have to get into a car that handles totally differently." Mullens said.
Mullens said the patrol officers' reactions to the car were hard to gauge because their preferences were different.
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"Everyone has got things like they about it and things they dislike about it, and if you sit down with two people, they will give you absolutely
opposite opinions," Mullens said.
He said that some of the larger patrol officers thought the Taurus was not as comfortable as the Crown Victoria.
He said the Taurus was easier to maneuver than the bulkier Crown Victoria.
"You get some of the smaller guys and they don't mind as much," Mullens said. "They can reach all the medals."
"It's got a little bit more get-up and-go." Mullens said. "For its size
and the heavy suspension they put in it, it handles fairly well "
But Mullens also said the smaller interior size of the Taurus might not easily accommodate the shotgun, controls that patrol cars must carry.
"We don't know how all the stuff would fit, " Mullens said. "We always manage to come up with new and diverse ways of fitting in that stuff."
He said KU police would wait to see how other law enforcement agencies using the car made all of its equipment fit.
Gene Worthington, fleet manager at Laird Noll Ford, said Ford had made the Taurus available as a patrol car because the body style of the victory was being changed and that it could not be available for six months.
He said the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department in Oskaloosa had ordered nine Tauruses with bucket seats.
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