Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Hosts LASD Academy Graduation

The recently played host to the graduation ceremony of 59 members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Academy Class 386.

The group, which included 27 female and 26 male deputy sheriffs, as well as four female and two male police officers from the Beverly Hills, Burbank, and Los Angeles School Police Departments, graduated from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Training Academy in Whittier. 

During the March 16 ceremony, Burbank police Interim Chief Scott LaChasse delivered inspirational remarks to the graduates and their guests, according to the Sheriff's Department. 

As part of the graduation, a badge-pinning ceremony was conducted, with the new deputies and officers receiving their badges from a family member or loved one. After receiving their graduation certificates, the graduates were officially sworn in as peace officers by Sheriff Lee Baca.

- LASD Media Detail