I definitely recommend coming to KCTC, especially the CJ program
It opens your doors up to anything
It helps you all a lot
Not just you know your knowledge on law enforcement
but, you know, you yourself.  It builds you up
If you're a person like me that loves to help people
the criminal justice is definitely the program to join and definitely the job to join
The students the KCTC learn a variety of different things
when it comes down to criminal justice
Some of the things that they'll actually learn is they learn basic police tactics
They'll learn traffic stops
building searches
I really liked it because it gets us
in good shape
and makes sure that everybody knows what they're doing correctly
They also understand the different court
systems and how the courts operate
We do a lot of scenarios, like real-world
scenarios, especially with courts
The courts is probably one of the most important parts
It's always the last key part to any case
We collaborate with Homeland Security
Investigations during that point so they
understand the federal status system as
well as the state side of the system
Today we're going to be investigating a
double homicide that occurred inside of
a restaurant. Two victims appear to be
shot and the first thing we're going to
do when we process the crime scene
is take photographs
There are a lot of different career options for students that join our program
When they do second year, they're actually certified in emergency 911 dispatch
so they could actually take that certification and move right into dispatching
Every Friday we have some sort of person come from industry to our program
and we've had Homeland Security, of course, police officers from every department
like Walker, Grand Rapids, Kentwood
Being here at KCTC
was one of the first leadership positions I had in high school
It absolutely prepared me to be a police  officer
because it sets the foundation
for the skills that you learn
in college and in the academy
This program is more than
just policing
It's building life skills that you'll be able to use for a lifetime
This pool of students here at KCTC
they are like-minded, they have a heart for law enforcement
They all want to go into the
same field as we do
This is a very rewarding program, very rewarding job
Very honorable. They're one of most honorable jobs that you could possibly do
I loved it.
I wouldn't have traded this program for anything
