Crime & Safety

Junior Police Cadets Learn to Use 'Firearms'

Paintball guns were the weapons of choice.

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Anyone who graduates from a police academy has to know how to shoot a gun, and the cadets at Jefferson Township's Junior Police Academy are no exception. So they learned how to shoot at a moving target. However, instead of real guns with real bullets, they learned using paintball guns with paintball pellets as ammunition.

Patch was there to cover their training session.

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