Area Youth Chosen for Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner’s Camp

Aly Delp

Aly Delp

Published June 24, 2019 4:35 am
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MEADVILLE, Pa. (EYT) — A Clarion County youth was one of two senior cadets chosen from the Troop E Camp Cadet program to attend the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner’s Camp next year.

(PICTURED ABOVE: Claire Kriebel; PSP Troop E Camp Cadet Director Trooper Michelle McKee; and Landon Beachly.)

Claire Kriebel, of Lucinda, Clarion County, and Landon Beachly, of Edinboro, Erie County, were chosen to attend the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner’s Camp at the State Police academy at Hershey next year.

Overall, eighty-one young men and women ages 13 to 15, who reside in the Troop E patrol areas of Erie, Crawford, Warren, and Venango Counties, underwent intensive training last week at the Camp Cadet program at Allegheny College in Meadville. They graduated on Friday, June 21.

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Cadet classes began each morning at 5:30 a.m with physical training and flag raising protocols. Cadets learned marching techniques and will demonstrate them before family members at Friday’s ceremonies.
    
The cadets attended multiple instructional seminars in Allegheny’s classrooms and elsewhere on campus. Pennsylvania State Police troopers gave instruction classes on felony traffic stops; cadets experienced hands-on instruction on running traffic radar guns.

There was instruction on taser use and building searches. Classes on PSP Forensic Services duties by troopers who gather evidence at critical crime scenes lifting fingerprints and substantial other physical evidence including DNA material. 
     
Seminars on PSP polygraph lie-detector investigation tests, criminal investigations, and computer crime issues. Cadets toured the PSP Helicopter which landed on campus.
     
North East Erie County District Justice Judge Scott Hammer conducted a mock trial for cadets. They underwent a drill formation inspection by Troop E Commander Captain Daniel Hines plus a demonstration by the Erie Police Department motorcycle unit. 
      
Each evening cadets participated in field competition games, including push-ups, sit-ups, obstacle course events, and ball games.
        
Graduation ceremonies began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, June 21, 2019, at the Wise Sports and Fitness Center, 493 Highland Avenue, Meadville. The keynote speaker was KDKA-TV Pittsburgh morning news anchor Rick Dayton.

Dayton repeatedly expressed his profound respect for those who serve in the law enforcement community and respect for parents of the cadets. He congratulated the young men and women who excelled at the camp.

Area youths in attendance at the camp included Isaiah McFeaters, Bo Myers, Mariah Wessell, Claire Kriebel, Hunter Johnson, Dale Swoger, Benjamin Garland, Hayden Wilson, Cole Harmon, Morgan Wessell, Cayden Baker, Dylan Strait, Sean Quen, Grayden Harmon, Dominick Greer, Lillian Hargenrader, and Orie Hepler.

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