 Volunteer Actors at Conservation Officer Training Academy
Use your acting skills to bring some “reality” to officer
cadets training to become Conservation Officers. The Enforcement Training
Academy needs volunteers to act in various training scenarios during Academy 18
at Camp Ripley, Little Falls. These scenarios occur one day on a weekly basis
during the academy going on now through August 14, 2018. You may volunteer for one or more days. Bring
a friend! At least 25 volunteers are needed.
Volunteers will:
- Act out various scenes of hunting, fishing, boating, ATV riding, etc.
- Act like a real-life hunter, fisher, trapper, boater,
etc.
This means as an actor you might:
- Play it straight, as if they weren’t the violator
- Try to help the violator by trying to talk the cadet “officer” out of writing a ticket
- Hide extra game in another cooler under a tarp in your pickup and see if the cadet discovers it
For example, Game Enforcement
Scenarios would have 5 or more sites set up with at least 2 actors at each
site:
Site A is “Fail to Validate
Site Tag” scenario
Site B is “Decoy Use/Shoot from
roadway or motor vehicle” scenario
Site C is “Pheasant Hunter
check / taking of a hen pheasant” scenario and so on.
Actors are encouraged to try to
be realistic – sometimes you get to be antagonistic and rude, sometimes
cooperative. The goal is to give the cadets a taste of “real life” duty. Acting experience is helpful, as is some
experience with hunting, fishing, or boating, but are not necessary to
participate.
Volunteers are provided with:
- instruction
- equipment to use for scenarios
- refreshments and meals
- bug spray and sunscreen
- mileage reimbursement to and from Camp Ripley
Scenario training day happens 1 day a week each week of
Academy 18 (May 2 through Aug. 14, 2018); days are approximately 12 hours long so
officers can experience scenarios at various times of the day.
For more information or to sign up, contact Conservation Officer
Mike Lee, Academy Director, 1501 Hwy 115, Nelson Hall, Little Falls, MN 56345 at 320-412-1176 or email Mike.lee@state.mn.us
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