With new recruits, policies Suffolk police embrace change
Quick Read71 recruits will have training in Spanish language and culture, and extra sensitivity and diversity training.
Photo credit: KEVIN P. COUGHLIN | Some of the new Suffolk police recruits are sworn by Commissioner Richard Dormer at the Suffolk Police Academy. (June 28, 2010)
This is the new face of policing in Suffolk County.
A class of 71 recruits, sworn in Monday, will be the first to have training - 20 hours - in Spanish language and culture. The class also will have more than double the state-required number of hours in sensitivity and diversity training.
Those are good things in a county on an island where demographics rapidly are changing.
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