A new class of graduates from the Oakland Police Basic Academy celebrated finishing the program Friday morning and prepared to begin working as officers on duty.
“I always wanted to a be a police officer when I was young. It’s always been a dream of mine,” said Khalil Logan, a graduate of the academy and the class valedictorian. “It’s one of those things where you wake up every morning and you see that there’s a lot of help that can be provided to people and it’s just an honor to think that you can be the person to do that for somebody.”
Other graduates are from outside California but have lived in Oakland and felt this department was the right fit for them. “We’re going to be the blueprint of what’s expected in policing and be the change,” she told KPIX. “You want your toughest and strongest people to take that challenge.”“Ensure that those hard-fought reforms and evolutions — that next chapter in policing that you all are writing,” Mayor Schaaf said to the graduates. “You have signed up at this particular moment for that awesome task.”
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