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Police Department To Hold Citizen's Academy

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published February 22, 2014 at 12:44 PM EST

People interested in crime and police work have a unique opportunity starting next month to participate in a civilian police academy in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is free 10-week, one-night-per-week class for city residents. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Kathleen Brown, the community liaison for the Springfield Police Department.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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