County legislature Tuesday night approved a lease agreement with
SUNY Ulster to use the former Sophie Finn Elementary School
as an extension center
KINGSTON – The SUNY Ulster Police Academy, which has been training officers at the Business Resource Center on Albany Avenue, is moving to the Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster at 94 Mary’s Avenue in Kingston.
The relocation to the former Sophie Finn Elementary School is scheduled to take place early next month.
SUNY Ulster’s Criminal Justice Department Chairman James Truitt said the new facilities will be more user-friendly for the trainees and instructors.
“Most of the space will be larger but it is really much more, smartly laid out where our needs are the way it was engineered. Everything is pretty much in the same section of the building,” Truitt said. “We next had locker facilities before or shower facilities – people would find a classroom that wasn’t being used and change their clothing back and forth. The better part is a tactical and training room that we will have at the new location.”
The police academy, a 30-credit hour certificate program, is a collaboration between SUNY Ulster and the Ulster County Law Enforcement Training Group. Since its inception in 2004, the program has graduated over 420 cadets.
