Aspiring Pennsylvania State Police troopers no longer need 60 college credits when applying to the state police academy, Gov. Josh Shapiro and PSP leadership announced Monday.
Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at a press conference announcing that college credits will no longer be required for state trooper applicants on Aug. 28, 2023.The Pennsylvania State Police has removed college credit requirements for cadets, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Monday, with the hope of opening up state police careers to a wider pool of candidates and alleviating the slowdown in applicants the agency is seeing.
Until Monday, those wishing to become state troopers had to have 60 college credits – some of which could be waived with previous law enforcement or military experience - before entering the academy, Paris said. “I do not expect to see a drop-off in the ability or caliber of those who go on to successfully graduate from our training academy and become troopers,” Paris said.
Making college requirements the focus of job offerings “knocked people out from even beginning the process,” Shapiro said, and his office has seen “anecdotal evidence, positively, that people with the skills that we want working in government are applying, whereas they didn’t before.”
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