Tyler Crosby, left, was honored as GNTC’s top graduate and “Top Gun” award winner for the current term’s graduating class. Pictured right is GNTC Basic Law Enforcement Academy Director Jim Pledger.
Tyler Crosby of Rome, Ga., received Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) “Top Gun” and top student awards at GNTC’s Basic Law Enforcement Academy graduation ceremony on Nov. 20.
GNTC Basic Law Enforcement Academy Director Jim Pledger recognized Mr. Crosby as the top student by awarding him the program’s Academic Award. Mr. Crosby also received the “Top Gun” Award which recognizes excellence in marksmanship amongst his peers.
Justin Bohannon, Mr. Crosby, Amethyst Dunn, Patrick Dupree, Aaron Grant, Alejandro Hernandez, Wesley Holland, Luis Otalora Murcia, and Johnny Peterson were the nine recruits who made it through the duration of the academy’s program held on the Gordon County Campus of GNTC in Calhoun, Ga.
Representative Trey Kelly (R-Cedartown), an attorney with the Parker and Lundy Law Firm in Cedartown, Georgia, was the ceremony’s guest speaker. Mr. Kelly began his public office service with the Georgia House of Representatives in 2012.
Recruits receive training in everything from criminal investigation to firearms to ethics and liability issues. For more information on the Basic Law Enforcement Academy at GNTC, call 706 378-1728 or e-mail the program’s director at jpledger@gntc.edu.
Shown, from left, are GNTC Basic Law Enforcement Academy Administrative Assistant Delores McClellan, GNTC Basic Law Enforcement Academy Director Jim Pledger, Amethyst Dunn, Aaron Grant, Luis Otalora-Murcia, Alejandro Hernandez, Tyler Crosby, John Peterson, Patrick Dupree, Keith Holland, GNTC Basic Law Enforcement Academy Class Coordinator Jonathan Parker, Alex Bohannon, and Calhoun Police Department Detective Sergeant Tom Petty.