{"id":9943,"date":"2026-04-21T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:35:33","slug":"citizens-police-academy-talks-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/citizens-police-academy-talks-emergency-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen’s Police Academy talks emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 A group of Troy residents now have a better understanding of how the city’s emergency response, narcotics and weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That understanding stems from the third session of the Troy Police Department<\/a>‘s (TPD) Citizen’s Police Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margarita Mesones-Mori, one of the weekly attendees of the Citizen’s Police Academy,\u00a0just moved to Troy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy husband was in the military, the army, for 20 years,” Mesones-Mori said. “He retired and 16 years after he retired, they called him back into active-duty service at Fort Rucker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He said yes and so we had to move someplace.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once they landed on Troy and settled into their new home, Mesones-Mori began looking for ways to learn about her new community. That\u2019s when she found TPD\u2019s Citizen\u2019s Academy. As it turns out, the academy has also helped her find comfort in her new town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo me it helps a lot because I come from a big city where there\u2019s a lot of lights and here it\u2019s very dark so it\u2019s very scary for me,” Mesones-Mori said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICYMI: TPD give up-close look at patrol tactics during Citizen\u2019s Police Academy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TPD Captain Bryan Weed said that providing that comfort, like they did for Mesones-Mori, is one of his main goals for the series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was born here in Troy, I have lived here my whole life, so I know what a wonderful place it is,” Weed said. “When someone else moves here and we can make them more comfortable and make them feel like this is their home, that\u2019s exactly why we\u2019re doing this citizens academy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session three highlighted each individual branch of TPD\u2019s Special Operations Division, which included the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n