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Division of Training and Education
Kay Codish, Executive Director
710 Sherman Parkway, New Haven, Connecticut, 06515
(203) 946-6309

In 1990, the New Haven Police Department embarked on a comprehensive process to become a fully dedicated community-policing agency. Organization changes were strategic and programmatic. It also required a new way of teaching policing.

New Haven's traditional training academy was disbanded and then restructured in 1992 to the newly conceived Division of Training and Education. It was charged with the mandate of educating police officers who would work together with neighborhood residents to maintain order legally, humanely, respectfully and equitably. The job of police officer was changing and a different type of individual with a precise set of strengths, especially communication skills, was needed.

A university-styled, community oriented police academy was developed. Its faculty is multidisciplinary, culturally diverse, and requires the highest academic standards in the state.

Peter Casolino, photographer

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