Academy Course Calendars
Academy Course Calendars
The information below is provided for each academy by semester.
2026 Spring Academy
January
January 2 - New Cadet Orientation (Hornsby)
January 5 - AM Admin/PM TCOLE Rules (Hornsby)
January 6 - Professionalism and Ethics (Hornsby)
January 7 - AM Professionalism and Ethics/PM Professional Policing (Hornsby)
January 8 - Professional Policing (Hornsby)
January 12-13 - Fitness, Wellness and Stress Management (Meissner)
January 14 - Multiculturalism and Human Relations (Meissner)
January 15 - AM Racial Profiling/PM US, Texas Constitution (Cantu)
January 16 - US, Texas Constitution (Cantu)
January 19 - Martin Luther King Holiday
January 20 - AM Test 1/PM Penal Code (Meissner)
January 21-23 - Penal Code (Meissner)
January 26-27 - Penal Code (Meissner)
January 28 - AM Penal Code/PM Code of Criminal Procedure (Meissner)
January 29 - Code of Criminal Procedure (Meissner)
January 30 - Arrest, Search and Seizure (Meissner)
February
February 2-5 - Arrest, Search and Seizure (Meissner)
February 6 - AM Asset Forfeiture/PM Identity Crimes (Bishop/Cantu)
February 9 - AM Civil Process/PM Consular Notification/Test Prep (Cantu/Meissner)
February 10 - AM Test 2/PM Health and Safety Code (Meissner/Cantu)
February 11 - Health and Safety Code (Cantu)
February 12 - AM Alcoholic Beverage Code/PM Sexual Assault and Family Violence (Cantu/Meissner)
February 13 - Sexual Assault and Family Violence (Meissner)
February 16 - Missing and Exploited Children (Meissner)
February 17 - Child Safety Check Alert List/Victims of Crime (Meissner)
February 18 - AM Victims of Crime/PM Human Trafficking (Meissner)
February 19-20 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigation/TIMS (Meissner)
February 23-27 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigation/TIMS (Meissner)
March
March 2-3 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigation/TIMS (Meissner)
March 4-6 - Intoxicated Driver/SFST (Jones)
March 9-13 - Spring Break
March 16-17 - Written Communications (Cantu)
March 18-19 - Verbal Communications (Cantu)
March 20 - AM Spanish/PM Test Prep (Cantu/Meissner)
March 23 - AM Test 3/PM Spanish (Meissner/Cantu)
March 24 - Spanish (Cantu)
March 25-27 - Force Options (Cantu)
March 30 – De-escalation (Fahrenthold)
March 31 - Crisis Intervention Training (Fahrenthold)
April
April 1-3 - Crisis Intervention Training (Fahrenthold)
April 6 - CIT Scenarios (A)/Force Option Scenarios (B) (Fahrenthold/Cantu)
April 7 - CIT Scenarios (B)/Force Option Scenarios (A) (Fahrenthold/Cantu)
April 8 - AM Traumatic Brain Injury/PM Arrest and Control (Meissner/Cantu)
April 9 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
April 13-16 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
April 17 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
April 20-23 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
April 24 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
April 27 - AM Test 4/PM Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Meissner/Cantu)
April 28-30 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
May
May 1 - AM Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops/PM Civilian Interaction Training (Cantu)
May 4-5 - ALERRT First Responder Medical (B)/Emergency Medical/CPR-First Aid (A) (Hornsby/Bishop)
May 6-7 - ALERRT First Responder Medical (A)/Emergency Medical/CPR-First Aid (B) (Hornsby/Bishop)
May 8 - Firearms Lecture (A)/Test Prep (B) (Hornsby/Meissner)
May 11-14 - Firearms (A)/Driving (B) (Hornsby/Jones)
May 15 - Firearms (A)/Firearms Lecture (B) (Hornsby)
May 16-17 - ALERRT Level 1 (A) (Hornsby)
May 18-21 - Firearms (B)/Driving (A) (Hornsby/Jones)
May 22 - Firearms (B)/Test Prep (A) (Hornsby/Meissner)
May 23-24 - ALERRT Level 1 (B) (Hornsby)
May 25 - Memorial Day Holiday
May 26-27 - Radio Communications/Amber-Silver Alert/TCIC-TLETS (Flowers)
May 28 - AM Deaf/Hard of Hearing/PM Canine Encounters (Meissner)
June
June 1-2 - Juvenile Offenders (Meissner)
June 3 - HAZMAT Awareness/ICS (Cantu)
June 4 - Test Prep (Meissner)
June 8 - AM Test 5/PM Test Prep (Meissner)
June 9-11 - Taser (Meissner)
June 12 - OC Spray (Fahrenthold)
June 15 - AM Final Exam/PM Test Prep (Meissner)
June 16 - Final Exam Retake/Test Prep/EOC Review (Meissner)
June 17 - TCOLE Licensing Exam
June 18 - Del Mar College Regional Police Academy 2026 Spring-Summer I Day Academy graduation. 6:00pm at Richardson Performance Hall
2026 Night Academy
February
February 5 - New Cadet Orientation (Hornsby)
February 9 - Admin/TCOLE Rules (Hornsby)
February 10-12 - Professionalism and Ethics (Hornsby)
February 16-18 - Professional Policing (Hornsby)
February 19 - Fitness, Wellness, and Stress Management (Meissner)
February 21 - Fitness, Wellness, and Stress Management (Meissner)
February 23 - Fitness, Wellness, and Stress Management (Meissner)
February 24-25 - Multiculturalism and Human Relations (Meissner)
February 26 - Racial Profiling (Cantu)
March
March 2 - Test 1 (2 hours)/Penal Code (2 hours) (Meissner)
March 3-4 - Penal Code (Meissner)
March 5 - US, Texas Constitution (Cantu)
March 7 - US, Texas Constitution (Cantu)
March 9-13 - Spring Break
March 16-19 - Penal Code (Meissner)
March 21 - Penal Code (Meissner)
March 23-25 - Penal Code (Meissner)
March 26 - Penal Code (2 hours)/Code of Criminal Procedure (2 hours) (Meissner)
March 30 - Asset Forfeiture (Bishop)
March 31 - Code of Criminal Procedure (Meissner)
April
April 1 - Code of Criminal Procedure (Meissner)
April 2 - Code of Criminal Procedure/Consular Notification (Meissner/Cantu)
April 4 - Arrest, Search and Seizure (Meissner)
April 6-9 - Arrest, Search and Seizure (Meissner)
April 13-16 - Arrest, Search and Seizure (Meissner)
April 18 - Identity Crimes (4 hours)/Civil Process (4 hours) (Cantu)
April 20-22 - Health and Safety Code (Cantu)
April 23 - Alcoholic Beverage Code (Cantu)
April 27 - Test 2 (2 hours)/Sexual Assault and Family Violence (2 hours) (Meissner)
April 28-29 - Sexual Assault and Family Violence (Meissner)
April 30 - Sexual Assault and Family Violence (2 hours)/Victims of Crime (2 hours) (Meissner)
May
May 2 - Victims of Crime (Meissner)
May 4-5 - Missing and Exploited Children (Meissner)
May 6 - Human Trafficking (Meissner)
May 7- Child Safety Alert Check List (Meissner)
May 11-14 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
May 16 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
May 18-21 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
May 25 - Memorial Day Holiday
May 26-28 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
May 30 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
June
June 1-3 - Traffic Code/Crash Investigations/TIMS (Meissner)
June 4 - Firearms (Hornsby)
June 8-11 - Firearms (Hornsby)
June 13 - Firearms (Hornsby)
June 15-18 - Firearms (Hornsby)
June 22-23 - Firearms (Hornsby)
June 24-25 - ALERRT Level-1 (Hornsby)
June 27 - ALERRT Level-1 (Hornsby)
June 29-30 – Driving (Jones)
July
July 1-2 - Driving (Jones)
July 6-9 - Driving (Jones)
July 11 - Driving (Jones)
July 13-16 - Intoxicated Driver/SFST (Jones)
July 20-21 - Written Communications (Cantu)
July 22-23 - Intoxicated Driver/SFST (Jones)
July 25 - Written Communications (Cantu)
July 27-30 - Verbal Communications (Cantu)
August
August 3-6 - Spanish (Cantu)
August 8 - Test 3 (2 hours)/De-escalation (6 hours) (Meissner/Fahrenthold)
August 10 - De-escalation (2 hours)/Force Options Theory (2 hours) (Fahrenthold/Cantu)
August 11-13 - Force Options Theory (Cantu)
August 17-19 - Force Options Theory (Cantu)
August 20 - Force Options Theory (2 hours)/Traumatic Brain Injury (2 hours) (Cantu)
August 22 - Crisis Intervention (Fahrenthold)
August 24-27 - Crisis Intervention (Fahrenthold)
August 31 - Crisis Intervention (Fahrenthold)
September
September 1-3 - Crisis Intervention (Fahrenthold)
September 5 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
September 7 - Labor Day Holiday
September 8-10 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
September 14-17 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
September 19 - Arrest and Control (Cantu)
September 21-24 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
September 28-30 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
October
October 1 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
October 3 - Criminal Investigations (Hornsby)
October 5 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Drivers (Meissner)
October 6-7 - Juvenile Offenders (Meissner)
October 8 - Juvenile Offenders (2 hours)/ Test Prep (2 hours) (Meissner)
October 12 - Test 4 (2 hours)/ Civilian Interaction (2 hours) (Meissner/Cantu)
October 13 - Canine Encounters (Meissner)
October 14-15 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
October 17 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
October 19-22 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
October 26-29 - Patrol Skills/Traffic Stops (Cantu)
October 31 - OC Spray (Fahrenthold)
November
November 2-5 - Radio Communications (Flowers)
November 9-12 - Emergency Medical (Bishop)
November 14 – TASER (Meissner)
November 16-19 - ALERRT-FRM (Hornsby)
November 23 - HAZMAT/ICS (Cantu)
November 24 - Test 5 (2 hours)/Review/Test Prep (Meissner)
November 25-26 - Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 - Final Exam/EOC Review/Test Prep (Meissner)
December
December 1 - Final Exam Retake/EOC Review/Test Prep (Meissner)
December 2 - EOC Review/Test Prep (Meissner)
December 3 - TCOLE Licensing Exam
December 4 - Del Mar College Regional Police Academy 2026 Night Academy graduation. 6:00pm at Richardson Performance Hall
2026 Fall Academy
Coming Soon
Page last updated February 17, 2026.