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Police Academy
at Northern Essex Community College
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The NECC/Methuen Police Academy is an MPTC-authorized full-service academy offering Basic Recruit and Veteran Officer In-Service training programs. It accommodates police training to approximately seventy area police departments from cities and towns within Eastern Massachusetts. The Academy is located on NECC's Haverhill Campus. The Basic Recruit Officer Course occupies five classrooms on the basement floor of Building E. The Veteran Officer In-Service training program occupies 2 classrooms in the HOW: Opportunity Works Building. The Academy also has the use of a gymnasium and showers located in Building D: Sports and Fitness Center. The Recruit Officer course (ROC) is an entry-level training curriculum for new Police Officers. Successful completion of the ROC is required under M.G.L. Chapter 41 §96B to be a sworn municipal, University of Massachusetts, or Environmental Police Officer in the Commonwealth. (Refer to Attachment 1)
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Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.
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Admissions
Employed or sponsored by a municipal, Environmental, or University of Massachusetts police department.
- **Employed Candidates: **Each department will have a hiring process you will need to follow, which may include a psychometric test. Your department will provide you with more information. Please note, that some departments utilize the Civil Service List. To work for those departments, you need to take the Civil Service Exam first. Once the Civil Service List is published, departments that utilize it will select candidates from the list and commence the hiring process, leading up to attending the ROC. To take the Civil Service Exam, please contact [email protected] or go to https://www.mass.gov/orgs/civil-service
- Sponsored Candidates: If you are not being hired by a department but still wish to undertake the ROC, you must be sponsored. Any municipal or University of Massachusetts Chief of Police or Colonel of the Environmental Police may sponsor an individual not hired by a police department to attend a full-time police academy. The MPTC does not maintain a list of chiefs who are willing to sponsor students; however, the sponsoring chief does not need to be the chief of police from the municipality in which you reside. It is generally understood that a sponsored candidate (often referred to as a self-sponsor) will be responsible for their own tuition and equipment costs. You should confirm this with your sponsor.