Wanted: Volunteers for Citizens Police Academy

I have seen this once, as a movie, and it was hilarious. It is possible the Port has seen the movie, too, because they're requiring a background check for their police department's Citizens Academy. But on other hand, maybe they haven't, because it's being held at Sea-Tac airport. What could go wrong there.

It's all free, but you do need to be able to commit to a once-a-week, 10-week program (Mondays, 9-11 a.m., April 12 to June 28). This is a "unique opportunity" to learn up close about the "many challenges" Port police face. I shouldn't make light of this entirely: they actually face quite a lot, including smuggling of both humans and narcotics.

Academy instructors include both police officers and civilian experts, and they go in-depth on "patrol, community policing, recruitment and training, domestic violence, narcotics, dispatch, investigations, crimes scene analysis, SWAT, explosive detection and narcotics detection K-9, and the bomb squad"--hmmm, nothing there about how to use email.