Beyond the Badge: Training is in full force for reserve officers across Northern Indiana

[@imachavel]

This looks awesome. My only question. A reserve officer generally works one day a week or less right? This would be the point that they have other employment right? Yet they still need 500 hours of training right? If a person is otherwise employed and intends to do part time police work as a reserve officer and can only put in like 20 - 30 hours of work a month at best how do they have the time to do the 500 hours of training? I guess only the local police department can answer that. Really cool program though and probably many people who become officers may have done this initially at some point.

[@MrBikercat]

well, if your going out there in a police uniform, you'd better be trained like a police officer. Criminals today don't care about anyone in a police uniform and usually don't distinguish between reg. reserve or auxiliary officers. several years ago, two unarmed auxiliary NYC officers were chased down and killed by an armed criminal.

[@Vsantuchi1013]

I like it. Love the training