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House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: January 6, 2016 03:20 PM
From: Representative John D. Payne
To: All House members
Subject: Celebrating the Pennsylvania State Police Academy
 
Please join me in cosponsoring a resolution that would celebrate the Pennsylvania State Police Academy.

The Pennsylvania State Police was established as an executive department of State government by an act of the General Assembly in 1905 and became not only the first uniformed police organization of its kind in the nation, but also a model for other state police agencies throughout the country.

In 1921, an act of the General Assembly allowed for the first official State Police Training School to be established in Newville, Cumberland County. Three years later the training school was moved to Cocoa Avenue in Hershey (Dauphin County). Act #112 of 1959 pronounced that the new training school would be known as the State Police Academy and today the Academy is still considered the West Point of all police training schools in the country and continues to produce the most well-trained troopers in the world. Since 1960, 141 classes of cadets have graduated from the academy in Hershey.


Introduced as HR638