The Department of Public Safety recently graduated a new class of adult correctional officers at Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu.
Of the 21 recruits in the graduating class, six are bound for the Big Island — four for Hawaii Community Correctional Center and two for Kulani Correctional Facility.
Basic corrections recruit class is nine weeks of training that includes 360 hours of classroom time and physical training. Recruits learn standard of conduct, professionalism and ethics, report writing, interpersonal communications, maintaining security, crisis intervention, security threat groups (gangs), mental health, first aid, firearms and self-defense.
All incoming classes receive recruit field training after basic corrections training. That means the recruits now go into their assigned facility and begin their job with the guidance of their training sergeants.