Katerina D'Agnese of Carmel, NY, recently graduated from SUNY Potsdam's Law Enforcement Training Institute.

The Law Enforcement Training Institute at SUNY Potsdam provides students with the unique opportunity to complete a rigorous pre-employment, state-approved police training as part of their undergraduate curriculum. The cadets celebrated their completion of the program with a ceremony on Dec. 18, 2021.

D'Agnese was among a cohort of nine cadets who graduated from the 15-week program after successfully completing Phase 1 of the New York State Municipal Basic Police Training, which includes 56 of the full 60 components, in Fall 2021. Phase 2, which comprises the final four components, can only be completed by recently hired officers.

"These nine college students are considered pre-employment trained, which means municipal agencies may hire these trainees off their civil service lists and save thousands of dollars. In some cases, as much $20,000 to $30,000. They are simply already police trained. In other instances, where cadets opt to go into other branches of law enforcement, they have made themselves that much more marketable as they now have a police academy on their resume. This has a plethora of value. This year alone, we have had cadets offered positions with Suffolk County Police, Syracuse Police, NYPD, Ithaca Police, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, Oswego City Police, Federal and State Corrections, New York State Police, Washington DC Capitol Police,...

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