Graduation exercises for the 32nd basic training class of the Caddo Sheriff’s Regional Training Academy will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 27, in the banquet room at Summer Grove Baptist Church. 

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 360 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 of the Academy are: John Anderson, Alan Caroll, Obadiah Covington, Parker Crockett, Matthew Fox, Eric Greene, Earl Hawthorn, John Kay, Robert Lang, Britton LeBlanc, Jessica Mayer, Philip McEntyre, Adrian Rawls, Shawn Reed, Carolyn Speed, Alvin Slay, Jacques White, and William Worden, Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office; Andre Goodwin, DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office; Gregory Moore and Troy Murray, Red River Sheriff’s Office; Matthew Sculthorpe, Sabine Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Brandon Bean, Wesley Harrell, and Craig Vercher, Northwestern State University Police; Richard Duncan, Demarcus Evans, and Fred Jones, Mansfield Police; Tyler Gillis, Haughton Police; Steven Kennon, Sibley Police; Jeffery McNeil, Ringgold Police; Jeremy Rials, Greenwood Police; and Cornealous McSwain, Office of Juvenile Justice.