Shortly after becoming Appalachian State's director of public safety and chief of police, Andy Stephenson established the school's highly-respected Police Officer Development Program.

The 2-year program exceeds North Carolina's minimum training standards by hundreds of hours and students graduate as fully sworn police officers. Stephenson goes in-depth on the structure of the program and the various types of training cadets undergo (2:07).

OTHER TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

• How the school is able to fund the program and provide participants with hourly wages (12:19)
• Challenges he faced in establishing the program (14:49)
• The diversity among program participants (17:02)

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