Six new trainees start work with Launceston Police (9/12/24)

Launceston Police has welcomed a group of new trainees who will shadow senior officers over the next six weeks. Video by Aaron Smith (9/12/24)

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00:00So today we welcome six new trainees from the Tasmania Police Academy.

00:04These trainees are on week 20 of their course and they're going to be doing six weeks of an

00:11outstation program in Launceston. Then I'll return to the Academy for two weeks of training

00:16and finalisation and then I'll graduate to Launceston after that two weeks. Look definitely

00:22over the last few years we've increased our recruiting quite considerably. That's in line

00:26with our policy to make sure we're covering our exit rate and also getting new numbers

00:31in to boost all the stations whether they're 24-7 or country stations from around Tasmania.

00:38We're well into that program we've literally doubled our recruiting over the last few years.

00:42The Academy is a great place to get that grounding but until you put it into practice

00:47that's when we see the real growth in the trainees is they can put into practice what

00:51they've been learning they can adapt it into real life situations and they can give them an

00:57opportunity to make sure that the policing career is for them. I always have wanted to

01:02just make a difference and have something that's always like changing and not just every day is

01:10the same so it really gives like the opportunity to find new things and challenge myself. I've made

01:18such good friendships down at the Academy and even though we're spread all over the state we're

01:23definitely going to try and keep in contact and maintain support for each other and honestly

01:29like if we didn't have each other as a group we wouldn't have been able to get through the 20 weeks

01:33without each other.