OCTC Partners with OPD and DCSO for Project Badge
Owensboro, KY (09/01/2020) — Owensboro Community & Technical College is proud to announce a new partnership with the Owensboro Police Department (OPD) and the Daviess County Sheriff's Office (DCSO), in conjunction with the Criminal Justice-Law Enforcement program, entitled Project Badge.
The program will allow new recruits of the OPD and the DCSO to participate in training and earn their associate degree simultaneously.
City commissioners approved the municipal order for Project Badge on Tuesday, August 18. In February, the City voted to change the requirements for OPD recruits by allowing them to obtain an associate degree or equivalent after their hire date and during their training period. Changing the officer recruiting requirements allows for an increased applicant pool.
The partnership provides the new recruits an opportunity to earn an Associate in Applied Science Degree in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement. Brock Peterson, the program coordinator at OCTC and a retired officer from OPD added, "This is a great option and should increase not only the pool of applicants but allow more students to reconsider this as a career option, in particular female and underrepresented minorities."
Interested students may apply to OCTC at Owensboro.kctcs.edu learn more about the program by emailing Brock.Peterson@kctcs.edu or calling 270-686-4601.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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