Northern Michigan University serves as a training center for Upper Peninsula and Upper Great Lakes law enforcement personnel. NMU Public Safety and Police Services coordinates these training programs, which include a 16-week regional training academy, basic and advanced law enforcement courses, programs and seminars.
Basic courses cover such topics as firearms, precision driving, first aid and CPR, police tactics, defensive tactics, criminal justice, domestic violence, traffic enforcement, mountain bike patrol, criminal law and other law enforcement areas.
Advanced courses include legal update training, precision driving, advanced law enforcement training, tactical pistol course, first-line supervisor training, firearm instructor update and evidence photography.
NMU also offers four courses in Reid Technique: basic and advanced interviewing and interrogation, child abuse investigations, and Reid and Associates street crimes seminar.
To learn more about the courses, review course descriptions for Public Safety-Law Enforcement and Public Safety—Corrections.
For more information, contact Ken Chant, director of NMU Public Safety and Police Services, or Mike Bath, training director, at 906-227-1408.
