| The Illinois State Police Academy has developed an innovative
performance-driven program called Fast Track. This program will
allow individuals with prior police experience the opportunity
to participate in an accelerated cadet training program! Specifically,
those who have within the past year been employed as certified
police officers with arrest authority and who have a minimum of
six months prior experience (excluding classroom and field training)
are eligible to apply.
The typical cadet program is 26 weeks in length. This performance-based
Fast Track program is approximately 12 weeks.
Pretests required in the selection process are based on actual
ISP Academy course content. Scores attained on the pretests
will indicate the degree to which each candidate for selection
has, through his/her experience, previously acquired knowledge
specific to the existing Academy curriculum. Quality training
remains the goal for all Cadet training. The Teaching, Assessing
and Correcting (TAC) program, which has been a major contributing
factor to the success of recent cadet classes, will be implemented
throughout the Fast Track program.
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