Citizen's Police Academy: Find Out What Happens Behind the Scenes

The Citizen's Police Academy is a 12-week program designed to inform the community how the police and the criminal justice system works.

Would you like to know how your local police agency operates? Come and find out what happens behind the scenes of police calls, investigations, traffic stops and more.

The New Lenox Police Department, Will County Sheriff’s Office, Frankfort Police Department and the Manhattan Police Department will be conducting our annual Citizen’s Police Academy starting March 7. The Citizen’s Police Academy is an informational program open to the general public.

Some of the topics that the program will include are a taser demonstration, crime scene investigations, a tour of the Will County Jail, traffic stops and much more.

This program is free to the public and takes place Thursday nights at Lincoln-WaY Central High School from 7:00p.m.-9:30p.m. Applications are available at the New Lenox Police Department, Will County Sheriff’s Office and the Frankfort Police Department. You can also obtain them on line at the following websites; www.newlenox.net, www.willcosheriff.org or www.frankfortpolice.net.

Limited space is available. For more information contact Officer Aurena Davis at the New Lenox Police Department at 815-462-6100.