Criminal Justice Program Highlights
Criminal Justice Overview
The Criminal Justice Program at Kent Career Tech Center is goal-driven to provide the best program of study and training to ensure student success in our industry.
Students are able to enroll in our program for either one or two years. During a student’s first year, students will learn all 12 segments. The segments include:
- Organizational Structure
- Professional Standards, including Ethics and Legal Responsibility
- Safety
- Health and Environment
- Public Safety Branches
- Law and Legal Systems
- Public Relations
- Career Development
- Workplace Technology
- Problem Solving/Investigations
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Communications
- Applied Academic in Law and Public Safety
These courses allow students to learn and challenge their skills, while being furnished with equipment from our industry and placed into scenario-based training and crime scenes. These segments fall under our introduction courses:
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Introduction to Law Enforcement Tactics
- Introduction to U.S. Legal Systems
- Introduction to Criminal Investigations
- Introduction to Crime Scene Processing
The second year of our program allows students to journey further into patrol procedures, Michigan criminal codes, OWI enforcement, pursuit techniques, interior and exterior drone operations, specialty response teams and correctional systems with the intent to obtain a deeper understanding of our criminal justice system. In this course, students are involved in high-risk traffic stops, speed measurement, correctional scenarios and field trips to correctional facilities, fire departments and police training facilities, which allows them to gain firsthand experience and process information at a more advanced level.
College Credits
Ferris State Dual Enrollment: Students in the CJ program will also be enrolled as Ferris State University students, receiving up to 12 concurrent credits for Intro to Criminal Justice and Intro to Law Enforcement if they currently hold a 2.5 GPA or higher.
Student Certifications:
1st Year: NECI 9-1-1 Dispatch, CPR, First Aid and AED certified and Mental Health First Aid.
2nd Year: Stop the Bleed, Narcan and FAA Trust (Drone) certifications
