Twenty-six recruits graduated from the Allan Hancock College Basic Law Enforcement Academy on Dec. 3 at the college’s Public Safety Training Complex in Lompoc.

The graduating recruits of Class #25-130 gathered with their friends and families to celebrate the completion of more than 871 training hours required to graduate from the academy and enter careers as peace officers. All of the recruits have already been hired by Central Coast law enforcement agencies. 

“Today is the day you’ve been eagerly waiting for after more than a year,” Guadalupe Police Chief Michael Cash told the graduating recruits. “You have overcome every obstacle presented to you to get to this moment.”

During the academy, the recruits received training in community policing, search and seizure, firearms, ethics, inve

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