Originally Posted By: fishhog
I heard that GW's are now being trained at the WSP academy. Anyong know if that is true or false???


WDFW Officers do not attend the WSP academy, they actually attend the Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) in Burien. Only WSP troopers go to the WSP academy, all other police/sheriff/WDFW/DNR Officers go to BLEA. The WSP academy is about 6 months long, BLEA is about 4.5.

If you are going to say that WDFW Officers should not go to a police academy, then that is just not possible. Every law enforcement officer in the state must go to some type of police academy. State park rangers go to a state park ranger academy that is ran the same way as BLEA just not accredited by the BLEA academy. Gambling Commision agents go to BLEA, Liquor Control officers go to BLEA and so on. So WDFW DOES have to send their officers to BLEA


Edited by bigman (10/31/09 02:05 AM)