HONOLULU – The Department of Public Safety (PSD) today welcomed a new class of adult correctional officers during a graduation ceremony at the Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu. Fourteen  recruits graduated from Basic Corrections Recruit Class (BCRC) 22-04 training and will begin their careers as correctional officers in facilities across the state.

BCRC is a 11-week training that includes more than 400 hours of classroom time and physical training. Recruits learn standards of conduct, professionalism and ethics, report writing, interpersonal communications, maintaining security, crisis intervention, security threat groups (gangs), mental health, first aid, firearms and self-defense tactics.

The 13 have been assigned to the following jail and prison facilities:

Hawai‘i Community Correctional Center                     4

O‘ahu Community Correctional Center                      4

H?lawa Correctional Facility                                     3

Women’s Community Correctional Center                 2

Maui Community Correctional Center                        1

Video and sound bites from today’s graduation can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cqd9gi7r6c418ck2hr6vk/h?dl=0&rlkey=aewojl6ryhqhfkr7dqdunzm8n

(Soundbites from PSD Director Tommy Johnson and Mick Hoffman, Deputy Director for Corrections)

Toni Schwartz
Public Information Officer
Hawaii Department of Public Safety
Office: 808-587-1358
Cell: 808-683-550