Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger says the province is providing funding to add nearly 100 new training seats per class for police recruits at the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s police academy.

The academy provides provincially approved basic training to all new municipal, transit and tribal police in the province.

The program typically lasts 25 weeks and includes both classroom and field training, ranging from firearms to emergency vehicle operations, Indigenous cultural safety as well as legal and investigative skills.

The province is providing $4 million to fund the additional 96 seats per class, which Krieger says will directly address the need for more recruits and making sure the next generation of police officers are well trained and ready to serve.

She says that mean

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