Jack Brooks: “Mr. Chairman, the amendment I am offering to the crime bill will establish a Police Corps program to provide college…”

“Mr. Chairman, the amendment I am offering to the crime bill will establish a Police Corps program to provide college students with aid for education in return for serving 4 years with a State or local law enforcement agency. This amendment is included in the version of the crime bill which was passed by the Senate and was reported by the Crime and Criminal Justice Subcommittee. In 1991, I offered a similar amendment which was passed by the House by a vote of 369 to 51. The Police Corps program is strongly supported by the administration--in fact, as Governor of Arkansas, President Clinton instituted the Nation's first Police Corps program. College students would be able to obtain a scholarship for up to $10,000 per year, up to a total of $30,000, to pursue their own chosen course of study. They would receive intensive police training over the course of two summers, and upon graduating, they would serve 4 years with their State or local police department. Participants would be selected on a competitive basis, by the State and local law enforcement agencies that would employ them.”