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In Oregon it’s 21-weeks followed by a probationary period. At least for the Oregon State Police: you attend five weeks of pre-academy and sixteen weeks of regular academy. Then there are ongoing trainings and required education courses. I’ve had numerous friends go through the process, with some failing out, and they all agree it is both thorough and grueling.

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It's two years for the local municipal police.

For comparison, nationwide we have less than 1 police fatality per 10 mm population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

What municipality is that? That is remarkably longer than the training taken by multiple family members of mine.

There's typically a training 'residency' period for new police officers as well. Where I'm at it's one year plus the original ~600-1000 hours in academy.

A municipality in one of denmark, iceland, japan, poland, switzerland, taiwan, or the UK.

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376741

(It's difficult to bear witness for any length of time without revealing far more than 30 bits of information about oneself. Therefore, my post history will narrow it down to the city, if you really wish that level of detail. But I believe the 2 years is the same for my "state" and its neighbours, whom we share a police academy with, and roughly the same across the country. NB that we don't even have judicial execution, so extra-judicial execution would especially be frowned upon.

    Regret, by definition, comes too late;
    Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. )

One bit of information was enough: you're not in USA, which is the context assumed by TFA and much of the rest of the discussion here. Congratulations on living where police are less of a menace.

So it's a 5-6 month training window with a trial period upon hire (which most jobs have). That's similar to for example a Comcast installer.

I have no experience with the specific training and so on but it sounds a little short/rudimentary compared to a lot of other places.

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