More than 100 police recruits graduated Wednesday and are ready to join the force.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder presented certificates to 183 graduates.
All of them completed seven months of intense basic training at the new Center of Training and Intelligence.
"We went through police reform," says Ryder. "This is the first group to get diversity training. They are the first group to get anti-bias training, that's additional training. It's all about de-escalation. Everything we've been teaching we overemphasized it with this class coming out."
A majority are now members of the Nassau Police Department while the rest are spread out across specific town police departments.