P.E.I.'s Atlantic Police Academy held its Police Science Cadet Graduation 2011 recently at the Harbourfront Jubilee Theatre.
About 80 cadets made the transition to constable after 35 intense weeks of training at Slemon Park.
Twenty-one-year-old Stephanie Gallant of Spring Valley was one of five Islanders who graduated.
"It feels really good to be done but I am really going to miss everyone," said Gallant as she anxiously waited her turn to graduate. "It was an awesome program."
Gallant was proud to say she was the shortest member of her graduating class measuring in at an even five feet. This is Gallant's second year at the school; she originally took the correctional officer program.
"I joke with my teachers that I'll be coming back again next year for something else," she said.
Gallant's fellow graduating Islanders were Hector Hernandez of Lower New Annan, Craig Murphy of Searletown, Ashley MacIntyre of Charlottetown and Kerri MacLaren of Morell.
There was one graduating student from British Columbia, about half of the class was from Nova Scotia and the remainder of the students were from New Brunswick.
