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Bellevue Police Commander Delivers Keynote at Nebraska Law Enforcement Graduation

The most recent graduating class of the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center in Grand Island included four new police candidates for Bellevue. The four new officers capped their 14 weeks of training in ceremonies on December 5th by listening to BPD’s own Captain Herb Evers deliver the keynote address - wise words from a 35 year law enforcement veteran.

Officer candidates Bailey, Filippi, Melrose and Plueger joined about 40 other graduates as Captain Evers talked to them about change, which is something he’s seen a lot of in more than 3 decades of law enforcement. Evers told them that while the equipment is ever changing, the vehicles constantly improving and the training expanding in scope, the one thing, he said, that has never changed is the law enforcement code of ethics.

Read that over and live by it in your professional life. ... Strong ethics is the one thing that will keep law enforcement on the right path. I am here to ask each member of the 172nd Basic graduating class to think about the ethics and to gather a strong ethical belief in themselves and everything they do. Carry on a proud tradition of Nebraska law enforcement.
~Captain Herb Evers, Bellevue PD

This was the 172nd basic law enforcement training class. Evers attended the 22nd. The 172nd was 14 weeks long. When Evers went, it was just six weeks long. The four new Bellevue Officer candidates now begin 16 more weeks of field training with a Field Training Officer in Bellevue, before they’ll be ready to hit the streets on their own.

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