Maricopa Police Chief Kirk Fitch is now a graduate of Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety.
Fitch successfully completed the 10-week Staff and Command Program held in Gilbert from Sept. 14-Nov. 20. The program, which was implemented by the Center for Public Safety in 1983, has graduated more than 10,000 students both nationally and internationally.
The School of Police Staff and Command provides upper-level college instruction in a total of 21 mandatory blocks of instruction and utilizes nine additional optional blocks of instruction during each session.
The Center for Public Safety was established at Northwestern University in 1936 with the specific goal of expanding university-based education and training for the law enforcement community. Since its inception, the center has broadened its original objective and now provides a variety of courses and programs in the area of Police Training, Management Training and Executive Development.
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