Tennessee Using Federal Coronavirus Funds for Police Training

Route Fifty: Tennessee will use  $300,000 in federal coronavirus funding to pay for training of new police recruits. The money will pay for 90 cadet scholarships for the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, covering the portion that local departments would normally have to fund, Gov. Bill Lee recently announced.

The push to help train more police officers came as part of a series of recommendations that Lee took from the state’s Law Enforcement Reform Partnership, a group of law enforcement leaders, business owners, and two state lawmakers convened in July and tasked with suggesting reforms to strengthen policing policies and improve officer training.

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