Fourteen students from the Savannah Technical College Peace Officer Academy celebrated graduating from the program with a completion ceremony Friday.
The students have completed coursework containing the entire Georgia Peace Officer Standards & Training Basic Law Enforcement Training Course, which qualifies them to be state-certified peace officers.
This is the twelfth group of students to complete the program, which has graduated more than 150 POST-certified officers since its inception in 2009. Savannah Tech’s Peace Officer Academy has a 98 percent placement rate.
Each class selects a fallen officer for whom the graduating class will be named. This year, they elected to honor Sgt. Robert Warren “Bobby” Crapse, of the Bryan County Sheriff’s Department, who was killed June 15, 2012, when a driver traveling the wrong way on I-95 struck his patrol vehicle head-on.
Crapse had served with the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office for 13 years and was posthumously promoted to Sergeant. His wife and three children survive him.
For more information about the Peace Officer Academy, contact Claire Pimentel at 912-443-5191 or cpimentel@savannahtech.edu.