The new statewide approach to recruit more police officers in Washington

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SEATTLE — Dressed in full uniform, police recruits line up in formation ready to begin their day at the Regional Training Academy in Vancouver, Washington.

At 7 a.m. sharp their day starts with the pledge of allegiance followed by pushups.

The patches on the majority of the 32 recruits in this class read Clark County Sheriff’s Office or Vancouver Police Department.

The recruits walk into a former elementary school. Now it’s a new kind of learning zone. It’s an attempt at solving a police academy backlog.

“Once I found

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