Twenty-five graduates of the Western Nevada State Peace Officer Academy will be honored on at 7 p.m. Friday in the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong will be guest speaker. Students in this year's class are from seven communities in western Nevada.
The academy is a 30-week, 33.5 credit program offered at Western Nevada Community College that includes a combination of classroom, practical application and physical training.
Cadets who complete the program are eligible to take the Peace Officer Standards and Training exam and can apply for positions in law enforcement that require Category I certification (police, sheriff, etc. ), Category II certification (bailiffs, fire investigators, juvenile probation, etc.) and Category III certification (corrections, jailers, etc.).
Members of the 2003 class have already been hired by the Carson City Sheriff's Department, the Nevada Highway Patrol and the Washoe Tribal Juvenile Probation Office. The program also fulfills requirements toward an associate's applied science degree in law enforcement.
The 2003 WNCC Academy graduates are:
CARSON CITY
Paula Andrews
Casey Andrews
Tara Coleman
Daniel Collier
Homer Dagdagan
Daniel Gonzales
Benjamin Leonard
John J. Leonard
Daniel Malone
Matthew Pearson
Meliah Peterson
Brandon Randall
Martha Tschetter
MINDEN
Joshua Carter
Jerome DelGiudice
INCLINE VILLAGE
Daman Yocum
FALLON
Autumn Goodin and Carl Smuda,
RENO
John C. Leonard
Ryan McDonald
Sean Shannon
Shellie Shannon
VIRGINIA CITY
John Pentelei-Molnar
WASHOE VALLEY
Tammy Hurst
Jeffrey May
