Minn. PD launches effort to recruit female officers with virtual simulator event - Police News

By Ashley Silver
Police1

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Last week, young women betwixt the ages of 14 and 18 participated successful immersive video grooming scenarios to acquisition a time successful the beingness of a constabulary officer.

The Brooklyn Park Police Department’s “Wonder Woman” lawsuit is simply a portion of their 30x30 pledge, which aims to summation the fig of pistillate sworn officers moving successful the section to 30% by 2030.

Kennaria Hopkins, a elder astatine Anoka-Hennepin Regional High School, signed up for the lawsuit due to the fact that she was funny astir what benignant of things officers experience: “I wanted to larn much astir what officers do,” Hopkins told CCX Media.

Hopkins was excited to spot officers who look similar her represented successful instrumentality enforcement: “You don’t spot a batch of African American females being successful instrumentality enforcement. I mean, I haven’t seen 1 until today.”

Currently, the Brooklyn Park Police Department has 100 sworn officers connected staff, but of those officers, lone 13 of them are women, according to CCX Media.

“It’s not wherever we privation to be. We would emotion to beryllium exceeding that,” Brooklyn Park Police Inspector Toni Weinbeck told CCX Media. Weinbeck hopes the lawsuit volition promote young women to “step retired of their comfortableness shell” and cognize they are susceptible of doing immoderate they acceptable their minds to do.

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