The program focuses on six experience areas: career, service, leadership, social, fitness and outdoors. In addition, the Explorers Program encourages young people to pursue a law enforcement career.
Law Enforcement Explorers is a program of Learning for Life that takes place in police facilities and is jointly administered with the Youth Division of the NYPD. The program is designed to educate young men and women, ages 14-20, about Law Enforcement. A uniformed member of the service in each precinct, Police Service Area and Transit District volunteers to be the on-site Post Advisor for the Explorer Program.
For additional information contact: Youth Officers Varlos Braithwaite, Nicolas Santos or Kenneth Wallen at 718 636-6569. Post 2188 meets at: 88th Precinct, 298 Classon Avenue (Between Dekalb & Lafayette Avenues) Brooklyn, New York 11205 every Friday at 4:00 PM.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be between the ages of 14 and 20 years old.
- Must not have a serious arrest record.
- Must pass an oral interview and a background investigation.
- Must maintain a "C" grade average or higher in school.
- Must be in good physical condition.