Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington is pleased to host the training academy, which is designed as a very intense course to prepare officers for the real-world situations they will experience on the street or in the jail.

The training includes a wide variety of classes and exercises to prepare sheriffs to become professional deputies. They learned such things as officer survival, active-shooter situations, officer-down scenarios, academics and weapons, as well as physical fitness, chemical weapons, legal, defensive tactics, driving, diversity, professionalism and other topics.