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What is State Trooper Training Like?

All new troopers in training undergo at least 800 hours of intensive training at the Alabama Criminal Justice Training Center in Selma. Trooper training is similar to military basic training in its regimentation, discipline and physical requirements.

Courses include first aid, constitutional law, criminal and traffic law, accident investigation, criminal procedure, pursuit driving, firearms, public speaking, defensive tactics and other courses designed to give troopers a firm foundation on which to build their careers.

Troopers in training engage in rigorous physical conditioning, which includes mandatory physical training and running. Required physical conditioning is increasingly demanding as training progresses.

While assigned to the training center, troopers in training live in the training center dormitory and eat at the dining hall. They are granted weekend leave only after the training schedule is well established.

The schedule for a typical day at the academy: