LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Traffic stops, arrests, domestic violence, civil disputes, larceny, and retail fraud. Members of the 143rd Trooper Recruit School (TRS) will be training on how to handles these events and more in the upcoming months and they are looking for a few good men (and women) to be in their Civilian Actor Program (CAP) to help with that training.

The Michigan State Police (MSP) are looking for citizen volunteers to work with the trooper recruits and the instructors to be involved in their exercises and have put out a call to solicit a “diverse pool of actors reflective of the communities the MSP services to provide the most realistic training experience for the recruits.”

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The exercises will take place at the MSP’s Training Academy in Dimondale from February 17th through May 18th. In order to be chosen for the program, you must be at least 18-years-old, have a valid driver’s license and complete all sections of the application. You must have never been convicted of a felony or any crime involving violence, dishonesty or false statement. All applicants will be subject to a criminal background check and will be required to complete the CAP class which involves legal instruction, role player responsibilities, role player safety, scenario introduction and scenario practice. Those who are chosen to participate in the training exercises will also have to submit to a weapons search on-site and must sign a liability waiver. The deadline to apply is January 20th.

Michigan News Source reached out to the MSP and Sgt. Cameron McRae of the Recruit Training Section Training Division said that right now there are approximately 64 members in the 143rd Trooper Recruit School and that the MSP has been “utilizing citizens as actors for just over a year. We have been conducting this type of scenario-based training for many years.”

Although the actors are not going to be playing corpses during the training, the citizen volunteers will be involved in the training depicting criminals, victims and regular citizens as they role-play with the recruits during various training situations. McRae says, “They will be interacting with the recruits with set dialogue during the scenarios.”

In November, 59 new Troopers graduated from the 142nd Trooper Recruit School. The school began at the end of June and during the 20-week period they received training in patrol techniques, report writing, ethics, cultural diversity and implicit bias, decision making, leadership, first aid, criminal law, crime scene processing, firearms, water safety, defensive tactics and precision driving. Upon graduation, the Troopers were sent to work in police departments all over Michigan as previously reported by Michigan News Source.