Police Academy is cancelled

After a six-year hiatus and despite numerous attempts to recruit residents (see Daily News stories one and two, for instance), the Newburyport Citizen Police Academy is cancelled.

Eager to expand my knowledge of the behind-the-scenes work of a police officer, I submitted an application earlier this month.

The police conveyed a message to me today that it will be offered again in the fall. I can only presume not enough people signed up to warrant the sessions.

That's a shame.