The Los Angeles Police Department, which is dealing with a shortfall of officers, graduates a new recruit class on Friday.
Los Angles police Chief Jim McDonnell, representatives from the mayor’s office, members of the Board of Police Commissioners and the police department’s command staff were due to attend a ceremony at the police academy near Elysian Park, where 26 recruits will become sworn LAPD officers.
The graduating class, which includes a Los Angeles Airport Police officer and two Inglewood officers and two San Gabriel Police Department recruits will graduate.
The new class is made up of 18 men and three women, all of whom completed more than 900 hours of training over the course of weeks.
Thirteen of the graduates are Hispanic, one is Black, three are Asian and five are white.