Rosemount Police Say Academy Classes Are Safe

Rosemount police want to assure residents that the city's police academy is safe.

The reassurance comes after a retired Rosemount librarian was accidently killed last week during a "shoot/don’t shoot" role-play scenario at a police department in Florida.

Rosemount police are currently taking applications for their own citizens police academy, which will be held weekly Oct. 3 - 24 and Nov. 7 - 21.

Rosemount Town Pages reported that guns are used in the demonstrations at the Rosemount citizens police academy, but Rosemount Police Chief Mitchell Scott says the guns they use cannot fit live rounds.

"We always make sure we never use any service weapons in our training," he said.

"We have a weapon that shoots blanks. It’s like a starter pistol. You cannot put a live round into it. The cylinder is solid at the end. It just won’t fit."

Scott said years ago officers used a training kit in which live rounds could be switched out for blanks, but the department began using guns that are unable shoot live ammunition when he heard that mistakes were made.

Discussing the death of the woman in Florida, he said "I’m kind of surprised that could happen."

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