Pasco is asking the Washington Legislature for close to $1 million to upgrade Pasco’s Basic Law Enforcement Academy campus.

It benefits the entire state as one of the most in-demand police academies in Washington and the only one in Southeastern Washington.

The regional academy first began offering classes two years ago. Before 2023, officers-in-training would have to travel to the main academy in Burien.

If the city receives $972,000 it has requested in funding, improvements would include a new portable classroom so that the regional academy would be able to offer more classes. Plus there would be added security fencing and restroom renovations made.

Pasco Chief of Police Ken Roske told the Tri-City Herald that with an additional classroom, the academy could offer more short-term prog

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