LANSING — Michigan students will soon benefit from the addition of dozens of police officers recently trained in the Teaching, Educating, and Mentoring School Liaison Program. The Michigan State Police hosted the four-day training, which concluded Thursday, Feb. 14.

T.E.A.M. is a school-based, law-related curriculum that is taught to grades K-12 by T.E.A.M.-trained police officers with the goal of uniting educators, students and law enforcement officers to better equip children to protect themselves from crime.

During the 40-hour training course, officers receive instruction in student/juvenile psychology, classroom management, and public speaking. In addition to traditional topics like personal safety, the T.E.A.M. curriculum has been updated to address current issues including bullying and harassment, cybercrime, school security, social media use and vaping.

This class included 30 officers from six MSP posts, four sheriff’s departments, 11 city or township police departments and one tribal police department:

• MSP Calumet Post

• MSP Lapeer Post

• MSP Marshall Post

• MSP Niles Post

• MSP Sault Ste. Marie Post

• MSP Wayland Post

• Benzie County Sheriff’s Office

• Genesee County Sheriff’s Department

• Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office

• Roscommon County Sheriff’s Department

• Canton Department of Public Safety

• Clinton Township Police Department

• Corunna Police
Department

• Dryden Township Police Department

• Dundee Police
Department

• Hancock Police
Department

• Houghton Police
Department

• Ontwa Township-Edwardsburg Police
Department

• Richland Township Police Department

• Watervliet Police
Department

• Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police

T.E.A.M. allows officers to teach at any of the three levels of education – elementary, middle or high school. The curriculum has been implemented in approximately 250 Michigan school districts.