The NBC10 Boston Investigators looked at the data and found an uptick in the number of policing candidates failing the fitness test to get into the police academy. Some student officers accepted into the academy are also dropping out because of fitness requirements.The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee oversees police training in Massachusetts.
"What we've been seeing, especially over the last several years, is that the fitness level of our candidates who come in is much lower than it has been in the past," said Natick Police Chief James Hicks, who also serves as MPTC's chairman of Northeast Chief of Police."I personally have lost some good candidates, and we're talking about females, trilingual, and there are others out there that I know of who have lost good candidates, also.
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