The Municipal Police Training Committee (MPTC) Executive Director Robert Ferullo and Plymouth Academy Director Eileen Goodick announced the graduation of 53 police officers from the MPTC Plymouth Police Academy’s 74th Recruit Officer Class (ROC).
The graduates successfully completed over 20 weeks of intensive, standardized training in all aspects of law enforcement and will now serve as full-time officers representing 24 police agencies across Massachusetts.
In a graduation ceremony at the Plymouth Memorial Hall earlier today, members of the 74th ROC took an oath and received their badges for service. The new officers represented several police departments and agencies, including Acushnet, Attleboro, Barnstable, Bridgewater, Brockton, Carver, Chatham, Duxbury, Fall River, Milton, Nantucket, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Plymouth, Provincetown, Sandwich, Scituate, Swansea, Taunton, Truro, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Wellfleet, Westport and Weymouth. They are the first officers to graduate from MPTC-operated academies in training year 2023-2024.
As part of the MPTC’s commitment to academic excellence and world-class police training, the Recruit Officer Course (ROC) provides over 800 hours of course curriculum designed to prepare student officers for the safe and effective performance of their duties. In keeping with mandates established by the landmark 2020 police reform law, the MPTC curriculum includes de-escalation training based on new use-of-force policies and regulations.
Student officers also receive uniform training based on best practices related to essential modern-day policing needs, including effective communication skills, victim-centered and trauma-informed incident response, missing persons and human trafficking investigations, mental health-related emergency response, active shooter and hostile event response, patrol duties, and officer safety and wellness.
Upon successful completion of the Academy, student officers have met all training requirements to be eligible for Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission certification.
