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By MARGARITA JAIME
Battalion Reporter
I If you’re considering becoming a police officer and want to know
livhat law enforcement is all about, don’t start by watching “CHiPs.”
1 ‘Forget television, ’’ Chief Ira E. Scott, head of the Law Enforce-
[rnent and Security Training Division of the Texas A&M University
System said. “So many law enforcement programs on TV are so
lisleading.’
He said that many young people come to the training school with
that idea in mind.
Before a person can be a law enforcement officer, he must be
Recommended to the training school by a police chief or sheriff stating
lhat he will be hired once he completes the program.
A person must be 18 years old with a high school diploma, he must
not have been convicted of a felony, and must have not been cited for
drunk driving within the last five years.
“Generally, they must be law abiding citizens,” Scott said.
Once they’ve completed these prerequisites, they must take 320
hours of basic training courses. The division offers 80 separate
gfcourses and on-campus housing for students.
| “We have people from all over the state enrolled in our basic
training program, ” Scott said, “and most of those peope are (recent)
high school graduates.”
lential electa K The program lasts eight weeks, and the courses involved range
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nocrats, saidli ( | enforcement officers who want further training.
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ichool, advanced accident investigation, and evidence technology.
“These advanced refresher courses are essential, ’ Scott said,
because law enforcement technology is constantly changing. As new
crimes develop, training has to change.”
Women are involved in the law enforcement world. “Out of a class
he should no« lof 25 trainees, we ll have three to five women,” Scott said. The
number of women is small, but it’s growing.”
The women are treated like any male law enforcement officer.
Their training is not limited to the classroom, everyone goes out to
the firing range and learns gun control and handling. “I’ve seen some
women fire a gun as well if not better than any man out there, ” Scott
said.
There are three training divisions located in Texas: in Arlington,
Houston, and the headquarters at the Texas A&M Research and
Extension Service.
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Bike licensing sought
Staff photo by Jeff Kerber
By TIM McALAVY
Battalion Reporter
With student registration swelling to more than
33,000 this year, and with more than 15,500 bicycles
operating on campus a day, cyclists at Texas A&M
University can expect strict new bicycle regulations as
early as the fall semester of 1981, says Texas A&M
Traffic Panel.
Some of the new regulations include:
— Mandatory licensing of all bicycles operated on
campus instead of the optional registration policy now
in effect.
— Impoundment of bicycles operating on campus
without a valid Texas A&M bicycle permit, and
impoundment of any bicycle locked or parked any
where outside of a bicycle rack.
— Mandatory licensing of a bicycle released after
impoundment.
— Citations for violations of the Texas Motor Vehicle
Law and University speed limits and an increase in
fines from $2 to $4 for parking violations and from $4 to
$8 for moving violations.
Presently, Texas A&M regulations pertaining to
bicycles on campus are derived from the Operation of
Bicycles and Play Vehicles law passed by the Texas
Legislature in 1971. These policies leave bicycle regis
tration up to the discretion of the student, allow
cyclists to ride on any sidewalk, thoroughfare, or
street, and contains no impoundment policies what
ever.
Thomas Parsons, director of security at Texas A&M,
said the new regulations will necessitate more Univer
sity Police manpower to enforce the many violations
that go unnoticed on campus every day.
“Using police officers to chase offending cyclists is
simply a Keystone Kops situation,” Parsons said. Also,
with more and more people and bicycles on campus
each day, it is easy for violators to disappear into a
crowd or simply speed away and avoid citation al
together.
To combat the crowded sidewalk scene and an
increasing bicycle-pedestrian accident rate, the univer
sity traffic panel authorized Dr. Charles Powell, assis
tant to the vice president for student services, to study
traffic regulation on the bicycle-laden campuses of the
universities of California at Davis and Santa Barbara,
and Arizona State University.
Dan Parker, last year’s chairman of the Texas A&M
Traffic panel, said that the new regulations derived
from Powell’s study were carefully studied before
being approved by the panel. Parker stated that the
new regulations would stratify the traffic flow on
campus in favor of the person who walks to class.
“After all, protecting the pedestrian is what it’s all
about,” Parker said, “and bicycles simply are not
pedestrians.”
Although the traffic panel has the power to research,
submit, and approve the new regulations, the decision
to apply them here at Texas A&M will come from the
University Board of Regents.
When will the regents decide on the new regula
tions? Not even the members of the Traffic Panel know
for sure, because projected cost and manpower plan
ning remains incomplete at this point.
Ralph J. Adams, this year’s chairman of the traffic
panel, said that one of the panel’s first goals for the fall
of 1980 is to complete the unfinished planning. Al
though Adams said that the first fall meeting of the
panel on Oct. 3 would be strictly organizational, the
criticisms and comments from students and faculty
would be welcomed at any one of later meetings.
Until a decision is made, cyclists and pedestrians are
encouraged to politely share the existing sidewalks and
thoroughfares, and to yield the right of way to the
handicapped in all situations.
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