Regional Police Academy graduates march into their ceremony from the Northern Michigan University Public Safety Institute on Friday. These 20 graduates would be divided among 12 different law enforcement agencies across the Upper Peninsula. (Antonio Anderson/Mining Journal)

MARQUETTE – Northern Michigan University had its Regional Police Academy graduation Friday, which saw 20 graduates who are set to work in 12 various law enforcement agencies across the entire Upper Peninsula.

“It is amazing to see,” training director Adam Maynard said. “All of them are already hired. A lot of the times you’d exit the academy and look for a job. We are so short on officers that departments are hiring to put people in the academy.”

The graduates went through a 16-week course involving a great many aspe

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