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Prince George
2025-03-13 10:52 PDT
If you see a group of grade 11 and 12 students running through your neighbourhood in two straight lines next week, don’t be surprised: it’s the RCMP Youth Academy completing their daily physical education.
Prince George RCMP, in partnership with School District 57, is proud to be hosting the 2025 RCMP Youth Academy. Twenty-one students have been selected to participate in this training, which aims to give the students a sneak-peak at what the RCMP training academy, known as Depot, is like.
Depot
The program runs for a full week between March 16-22 and is being held at College Heights Senior Secondary School. The students and their Mountie facilitators will sleep, eat and learn at the school. Students will participate in activities such as drill practice, handcuffing, and running the Police Fitness Assessment (PFA). They will also take classes in Indigenous Policing, Criminal Code offenses, and powers of arrest, among other subjects.
View larger image: Troop photo from the 2024 RCMP Youth Academy
The students participate in mock court trials and several different live-action scenarios that test the knowledge they have gained throughout the week. They will meet with police officers from Forensic Identification, Police Dog Tactics and even take a tour of the RCMP hangar. Their days are long, beginning at 6:00 a.m. and running until 11:00 p.m. every day, simulating the workload we experience as recruits at Depot, states Cpl. Jennifer Cooper, Media Relations Officer for the Prince George RCMP.
The students participate in mock court trials and several different live-action scenarios that test the knowledge they have gained throughout the week. They will meet with police officers from Forensic Identification, Police Dog Tactics and even take a tour of the RCMP hangar. Their days are long, beginning at 6:00 a.m. and running until 11:00 p.m. every day, simulating the workload we experience as recruits at Depot,
Residents around College Heights Senior Secondary School can expect to see the students in their community while the Youth Academy is running. So, don’t be alarmed if there are more police cars in your neighbourhood than usual – chances are it’s the Youth Academy hard at work!
Click here to read more about this year's Youth Academy: RCMP Youth Academy offers teens authentic Depot experience | Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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