DSP Trooper Youth Week applications accepted until May 23

The Delaware State Police and the American Legion will be sponsoring the 52nd Annual Trooper Youth Week from Monday to Friday, June 16 to 20. The deadline to submit applications is 4 p.m., Friday, May 23.

Trooper Youth Week is a weeklong, live-in academy program designed to give high school students who are sincerely interested in law enforcement an opportunity to experience the rigors of training that police officers receive at the DSP Academy in Dover. The program is both mentally and physically challenging.

The students are selected from a competitive pool and are required to participate in daily physical training, as well as a variety of law enforcement-related classroom instruction. Daily physical training will include outdoor running, push-ups and sit-ups, among other exercises. The program is facilitated by uniform troopers assigned to the DSP Training Academy and school resource officers from across the state.

High school seniors, juniors and sophomores are all encouraged to apply. Applications can be downloaded directly from the Trooper Youth Week website, dsp.delaware.gov/trooper-youth-week, or by contacting the student’s school resource officer. There is no cost to the student to attend this training.