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Week 6 began promptly at 1800 Sunday when we lined up as usual outside of the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Lansing. This week, we were challenged by several recruits becoming sick, but we did our best to mitigate by heavily sanitizing and disinfecting the area. Luckily, we successfully contained the situation.
Photo caption: Each week, recruits are assigned different chores, such as cleaning up tables. Recruits shown above are ensuring that every detail of their chow tables are immaculate after finishing a meal.
After the standard review Sunday of our previous week’s exams, we began online behavioral health crisis training. This training taught us about interacting with people who have some form of a behavioral health condition. As fully licensed law enforcement officers, conservation officers need to have the skills to help any individual.
For Monday’s physical training, we conducted a lower body circuit workout. At 0800, we reported to the classroom to begin our third block of instruction on criminal law and procedure with David Greydanus, retired MSP inspector. During this block we covered crimes against persons and property. In the afternoon, we worked through a couple of outside scenarios geared toward helping us recognize the elements of individual crimes. The hands-on learning was helpful. We also took time to review for an exam scheduled later in the week. After dinner, we returned to the classroom to finish our online behavioral health crisis training.
Physical training kicked off our Tuesday morning. It involved running around the outside drive track to build our speed and endurance. About halfway through the run, we stopped to do a deer drag relay. We were back in the classroom by 0800 to learn about motor vehicle traffic crash investigations with MSP Sgt. Scott Carlson. We received in-depth knowledge on how to do a UD-10 (traffic crash report). We were presented with different scenarios to give us practice filling out the UD-10 for crashes with different elements. After dinner, we were back in the classroom to cover laws pertaining to civil rights and human relations.
Photo caption: Recruits dive 12 feet to retrieve bricks and push them across the bottom of the tank.
Wednesday morning PT was in the tank (swimming pool). Our workout consisted of a series of laps focusing on individual strokes, including the breaststroke, front crawl and sidestroke. Also, we integrated a series of deepwater pushups, Russian twists and air squats using medicine balls. To finish, we broke into groups for a team building exercise, taking turns pushing bricks along the bottom of the tank to finish the lap. After breakfast, we reported to the classroom to continue our lesson on motor vehicle traffic crash investigations. This time, MSP Lt. Brandon Davis taught us more specifics about crash reconstruction. This involves using physical evidence to analyze as accurately as possibly how the crash occurred. In the afternoon, we split into two groups and went outside to reconstruct a mock crash scene. After dinner, we returned to the classroom for two exams, an intense legal exam and a motor vehicle code exam. The legal exam was very difficult. I believe we were tested on cumulative material from eight chapters rather than only three chapters covered during the prior legal exam.
Thursday, we conducted gymnasium circuit PT. We used metal folding chairs to perform a series of upper and lower body exercises. After breakfast, we reported to the classroom for a final period of instruction on motor vehicle traffic crash investigations. Following lunch, Detective Annie Harrison spent the afternoon covering information on vulnerable persons and neglect. During the class, we learned what vulnerable person means and how to spot the signs that call for further investigation to ensure people aren’t being treated poorly or being taken advantage of. The last hour of the day was spent writing reports on a scenario we observed a couple weeks ago to test our memories and practice report writing skills.
This week's legal exam really made me doubt my ability to absorb and retain information at the scale and pace needed to be a successful law enforcement officer. However, I had amazing support from my fellow classmates, and they were able to pick up the slack when I was struggling. Although we are still working out all the kinks that are slowing us down, we as a class have meshed and are supporting each other to ensure that we all succeed.
