Over 90 newly certified law enforcement officers are scheduled to graduate from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy (TLETA) at 11 a.m. Friday, June 22, 2018 during a ceremony to be held at Al Menah Shrine Temple (1354 Brick Church Pike, Nashville, TN). Some of those graduates will head to the Murfreesboro Police Department and the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
TLETA's Basic Police School course provides technical and tactical expertise in addition to the ethical and professional standards of law enforcement necessary for success. The newly certified officers will join thousands of law enforcement officers who have studied at TLETA during its more than 50-year history.
Graduates of Basic Police School Class 1840 will serve the following police departments (PD), sheriffs' offices (SO), fire departments (FD), and state agencies:
Ashland City (PD), Bartlett (PD), Bedford County (SO), Bledsoe County (SO), Chattanooga (PD), Cheatham County (SO), Clarksville (PD), Coffee County (SO), Collierville (PD), Columbia (PD), Cookeville (PD), Crossville (PD), Dickson (PD), Dickson County (SO), Dyersburg (PD), East Ridge (PD), Fentress County (SO), Franklin County (SO), Germantown (PD), Gibson County (SO), Hamblen County (SO), Hamilton County (SO), Hardeman County (SO), Hendersonville (PD), Huntingdon (PD), Johnson County (SO), La Vergne (PD), Lawrence County (SO), Lewisburg (PD), Maury County (SO), Memphis (FD), Milan (PD), Millington (PD), Mountain City (PD), Murfreesboro (PD), Obion (PD), Pickett County (SO), Pikeville (PD), Pulaski (PD), Ridgely (PD), Rutherford County (SO), Shelbyville (PD), Smyrna (PD), Springfield (PD), Tennessee Bomb and Arson, Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, Tennessee State Parks, Tipton County (SO), Trousdale County (SO), Tullahoma (PD), Union City (PD), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (PD), University of Tennessee at Martin (PD), Waverly (PD), Wilson County (SO) and Williamson County (SO).
Hamblen County Sherriff Esco R. Jarnagin will be the graduation speaker.
The next Basic Police School class begins July 8, 2018.
For more information about the TLETA, visit our website.