One of the classes basic training students take at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) is resilience.
Resilience gives the students a tool they need to recover from difficulties associated with responding to stressful situations on the job.
During the class, KLETC Class Coordinator James Buettgenbach has students visit KLETC’s Wall of Honor. The Wall of Honor is a monument recognizing those KLETC graduates who have died in the line of duty.
Each student reads aloud to the class the name of the fallen officer, the officer's agency, and how he or she died.
“Showing gratitude is a form of resilience that helps not only the person who receives the expression of gratitude, but it also helps the person who expressed gratitude," said Buettgenbach.
Students are told that those on the Wall of Honor may have left things unsaid to someone who is important to them. As an exercise, Buettgenbach has the students write a thank you letter to someone in their life who means something to them. The students then seal the letters and give them to Buttgenbach to be mailed at a later date.
The 282nd Basic Training Class is scheduled to graduate Friday. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and is to be livestreamed on the center's Facebook page. To watch the livestream on Friday afternoon, click here.
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The above information is from a post on the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center Facebook page.