Junior Police Academy:
Physical fitness, respect, discipline
Patrick Silva and his junior cadets do exercises at the beginning of the day at the Junior Police Academy on Tuesday. The weeklong camp taught kids some of the skills needed in law enforcement and emergency medical service professions. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Phil Stake
Staff writer

GALLUP — Bianca Ferrari, 20, was going down the wrong path until she found the Gallup Junior Police Academy.Now she’s a junior at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas majoring in criminal justice and aiming high. Ferrari said that after she graduates she wants to be a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation — one of the nation’s elite law enforcement officers — an FBI investigator.

“I would say back when I was a teenager I kind of was going down the wrong path,” Ferrari said Friday “... I was wanting to experience the wrong things, so my mom put me in this little event, and at first I was totally negative about it. I didn’t want to be around cops. I just didn’t want to go to this thing.”

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