LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — For the first time, cameras were invited inside the Las Vegas Metro Police Academy as a part of their recruitment initiative.

This is a place where recruits spend six and a half months training before they serve the Las Vegas Valley community.

Each recruit comes in with a different dream and a different story. But by the end, they’ll leave with the same foundation. Inside the academy walls, they all train to the same standard.

“It is important to see how the officers you see in your community are trained, everything they have to do,” said LVMPD TAC Officer Anya Highsmith in Spanish.

For Officer Highsmith, this academy is where her own dream began.

“When I came to this country, I realized that a woman could be an officer,” she said.

Officer Highsmith immigrated

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