Michigan State Police have celebrated the graduation of 61 new troopers from the 144th Trooper Recruit School in Lansing this week.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer was the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony, telling the graduates they “will help make Michigan a better, safer place we can all be proud to call home.”
The Trooper Recruit School began on July 9 with 85 prospective troopers, at the MSP Training Academy. Recruits received training in patrol techniques, report writing, ethics, cultural diversity and implicit bias, decision making, leadership, first aid, criminal law, crime scene processing, firearms, water safety, defensive tactics, and precision driving.
Among the graduates are four that will be assigned to posts in southwest Michigan. Trooper Daniel Cluster of Watervliet will be assigned to the Paw Paw post. Also assigned to the Paw Paw post are Troopers Sean Donohue of Portage and Samantha Gygax of Portage. Finally, Trooper Sin-cere Taylor of Coloma has been assigned to the Niles post, and Trooper Thomas Morgenstern of Traverse City has been assigned to the Wayland post.
