-University of Illinois Newsphoto by Joe Wright

Speakers and leaders of the first University of Illinois Police Training Institute gather outside the University's new Law Building on the Urbana-Champaign campus, where sessions of the Institute were held in July. Left to right (first row) Chief Edwin Whiteside, Wilmette, President of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police; A. L. Sargent, Executive Director, Illinois Municipal League; Byron Fulk, Urbana, Supervisor of the Police Training Institute Division of University Extension; Joseph Eweres, Champaign, University Security Officer; (second row) Charles Bowman, Urbana, University Professor of Law and Institute Instructor; Milan Plavsic, Director of Public Safety, Park Forest, Institute Instructor; Harold Johnson, Chicago, President of the Illinois Police Association, and Joseph Blaze, University Supervisor of Security and Traffic. During 30 days of classes, the police officers will receive 132 hours of classroom and 74 hours of field instruction in areas from law to first aid.