January 6, 2023

Windham officer completes Maine law enforcement training program

A police officer from Windham is one of 62 cadets who graduated from the Basic Law Enforcement Training Program at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro on Dec. 16.
Windham Police Officer Sam
Pattee completed Basic Law
Enforcement Training at the
Maine Criminal Justice
Academy in December.
COURTESY PHOTO 

Windham Officer Sam Pattee completed the training program and was selected to lead the class in reciting the Law Enforcement oath of ethics to conclude the ceremony for the cadets. He is a 2014 graduate of Windham High School where he starred as a member of the varsity football and baseball teams for the Eagles.

The 18-week intensive residential training program teaches and trains cadets to deal with the rigors of a law enforcement career. Pattee's class opened in August with 70 cadets, and 62 of them completed the program, including nine female cadets.

The academy trains officers to help fill the growing gap in recruitment and retention issues that are plaguing the law enforcement profession in Maine and across the country, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Pattee joined the Windham Police Department in January 2021 and has completed a year of military deployment as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve since joining the force. <

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