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| During the Toronto Police Force's early years from 1834 onward, formal training for Constables did not exist. It wasn’t until 1886 that the first police school began operation. Officers attended for six weeks to learn everything from dealing with open-air preachers to City by-laws and the Criminal Code. Basic literacy was the only | ||||||||||||||||
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pre-requisite. As policing this rapidly growing metropolis became more complex,
the training became more sophisticated, and the standards became higher. In 1959, an old Catholic school was acquired and converted to the first full-time Toronto police college. It served the Toronto |
Force
well until the early 1970s when it could no longer keep up with increased hiring
levels. In 1977, a state-of-the-art police college was built and named after the first Police Services Board Chairman, Judge C.O. Bick. The educational bar for today’s |
applicant
has been raised to a minimum of high-school graduation. Many applicants have
college and university degrees, even so, less than 10% are accepted. New recruits
train for eight weeks at C.O. Bick College, and another 12 weeks at the Ontario
Police College in Aylmer before graduating as fourth class Constables. Their
police education has just begun. All our officers undergo training on a continual
basis. Annual gun and self-defence re-qualification courses are augmented with
instruction on problem solving, new technology, community relations, and a
variety of other specialized skills. Training is also presented outside the
classroom via TPS’s own LIVELINK internal television network. We’ve come a long way from “seat-of-the-pants” training in the early 1800s to the “seats-of-higher- learning” today. |
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