Park City’s City Council voted Thursday night to implement a training program for its citizen police volunteers to give them an inside look at police work.
The 10-week program, which will begin this month, is similar to the successful Citizens Police Academy inaugurated earlier this year in adjoining Waukegan. But in Park City, many of the students in the first session will come from the city’s volunteer Community Organized Police Solving group.
The group, known as COPS, regularly assists police by patrolling neighborhoods, handling crowds at street festivals and pitching in during emergencies such as bad storms.
“We have teens and adults in the program, and they’ve been a big help,” said Mayor Robert Allen. “But everybody is welcome to enroll in the program. It’s free, and I’ve told senior citizens that you don’t need to be able to climb a rope or anything.”
For information, call the Police Department at 847-662-2134.
