The Department of Public Safety (PSD) recently welcomed a new class of adult correctional officers.

The twelve recruits graduated from Basic Corrections Recruit Class (BCRC) 23-01 training and will begin their careers as correctional officers in facilities across Oʻahu and on Hawai‘i island. 

BCRC is a 11-week training that includes more than 400 hours of classroom time and physical training. Recruits learn standards of conduct, professionalism and ethics, report writing, interpersonal communications, maintaining security, crisis intervention, security threat groups (gangs), mental health, first aid, firearms, and self-defense tactics.

The 12 new corrections officers have been assigned to the following jail and prison facilities:

Oʻahu Community Correctional Center                      4

Halawa Correctional Facility                                       4

Women’s Community Correctional Center                 2

Hawai‘i Community Correctional Center                    2

Photo credit: Department of Public Safety