Graduation exercises for the 21st basic training class of the Caddo Sheriff?s Regional Training Academy will take place at 4 p.m. today at Summer Grove Baptist Church. Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator will be the guest speaker.

Twenty-seven graduates will take the oath of office, receive their badges, and participate in a special ceremony where family and friends assist them with pinning on their badges for the first time.

Class participants received 320 hours or more of peace officer training in areas including law, patrol activities, traffic services, report writing, investigations, firearms, first aid, and criminal justice.

Graduates are Loy W. Berry Jr., Demetrice L. Adams-Ellis, Thomas G. Englade, Terry J. Hamilton, Michael D. King, Christopher P. Menard, Tia A. Moore, La Tienda Pierre, Michael S. Taylor, and Nathaniel A. Wesson, Caddo Sheriff?s Office; Gilbert B. Raynes, Natchitoches Sheriff?s Office; Jacques R. Burton, DeSoto Sheriff's Office; Angela M. Adams, Bryan K. Edwards, Rebecca L. Flores, Kevin R. Jones, Jeffrey M. Oran, and Corey S. Wells, Bossier City Police Department; Billy A. Rasberry Jr., Minden Police Department; Dustin S. Bohannon, Vivian Police; Michael J. Rimsky, Ringgold Police; George L. Walton, Mansfield Police; Randal A. Thomas, Bossier City Marshal's Office; Daniel J. Barnard and Kristen L. McKee, Office of Youth Development/Louisiana Probation and Parole; Todd A. Field, Centenary College Police; Christina A. Ricard, Louisiana State Military Police.