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SACATON-For D5’s Vanessa Enos, 24, the drive to become a Gila River Police Officer was what compelled the young lady through the rigors of an 18-week training program which embodies the CARLOTA Academy.
The Central Arizona Regional Law Officers Training Academy (CARLOTA) offered through Central Arizona College at Signal Peak is a program designed to prepare potential police recruits for entry into law enforcement positions. In addition to physical fitness training and practical exercises, cadets also study matters of the Criminal Justice System, Laws of Arrest, Search and Seizure, and Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs among many other subjects.Since it’s inception, the CARLOTA Academy has trained over 2,400 officers and assisted upwards of 88 different police agencies.
On Thurs, Oct. 22, Officer Vanessa Enos graduated with Class 109 from the CARLOTA Academy with distinguished honors, sweeping the awards given in areas of physical fitness, firearms and academics. Enos was also given the coveted Russell L. Duncan award which memorializes a fallen patrol officer from the Apache Junction Police Department who was killed in the line of duty in 1983. This particular award is given to a member of the graduating class who has been chosen by his/her peers in the academy.
Of the 12 cadets who started the program, Enos was one of the remaining five to graduate. “I didn’t want to give up. That’s not something I look to do,” she said. “I really wanted to become a ranger so I kept up and kept my grades up as well.”
Upon graduating from CARLOTA, Enos is a state certified police officer. However, in her pursuit to become a ranger with the Gila River Police Department (GRPD), Officer Enos will be put through a 12-week field-training program in which she’ll learn to be an officer of the Gila River Indian Community. After which, she will then undergo another 8-week program where she will learn laws and codes regarding boundary and resource protection that rangers must abide by.
“After that 8-week training, she’ll be able to go out on her own,” said Corporal Richard Sichling of the Special Services Division/ Rangers with GRPD. Sichling also remarked on Enos accomplishments in graduating with honors from the Academy. “There were students from Yuma, San Carlos, Casa Grande, all over the state,” he said. “She was at the very top of her class. We’re very proud of Ms. Enos.” Before Community Council on Weds, Nov. 4, Enos was presented as a graduate of the CARLOTA academy.
D5 Councilman, Frank Pablo, Sr., congratulated Enos saying that he knows it wasn’t easy but how remarkable it was that she came out on top. “Overall I think the person who is most proud is Mr. Enos.”
Officer Enos is the daughter of D5 Councilman Delane “Tony” and Terry Enos.
“Yes, I’m very proud of her and what she’s accomplished,” Councilman Enos said. “With what she’s accomplished, the rest will follow. She’ll be protecting the Community from Districts One to Seven.”
Although her training with the academy is over and she no longer has to spend hours on end at the shooting range in mid-summer, triple-digit heat, Officer Vanessa Enos can now look forward in her career as a GRIC ranger patrolling the seven districts of the Community.
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