{"id":19431,"date":"2025-03-25T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=19431"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:16:28","slug":"elizabethtown-college-appoints-timothy-fetzer-as-director-of-police-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/elizabethtown-college-appoints-timothy-fetzer-as-director-of-police-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Appoints Timothy Fetzer as Director of Police Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College has announced the appointment of Timothy Fetzer to lead the College\u2019s efforts to establish a Police Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m excited to welcome Tim Fetzer as the new Director of the Elizabethtown College Police Academy,\u201d Elizabethtown College Director and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Kadee Crandall said. \u201cDirector Fetzer brings extensive experience and commitment to excellence in both law enforcement and the community. I&#8217;m confident he will bring strong leadership and new perspectives, shaping the future of law enforcement professionals.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fetzer is tasked with launching the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/18915\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> new police academy at Etown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which was approved as a host site by the Municipal Police Officers\u2019 Education &amp; Training Commission (MPOETC), Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), and the Office of the Governor in January 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following a distinguished 25-year career, Fetzer retired as a Lieutenant from the PSP in 2024 where he last served as the commander of the Use of Force Section at the PSP Academy in Hershey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his role, Fetzer oversaw the development and delivery of numerous training programs, ranging from crisis intervention and de-escalation strategies to law enforcement use of force. He developed a community engagement program in 2020, which continues to be delivered to community groups and professional audiences throughout the Commonwealth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During his career with the PSP, Fetzer held many roles, serving as a Patrol Trooper, Patrol Unit Supervisor, Background Investigator, Internal Affairs Investigator, and Criminal Law Instructor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fetzer earned his Bachelor of Science in the Administration of Justice from the Pennsylvania State University. He is certified by the Force Science\u00ae Institute as an Advanced Specialist in the Behavioral Analysis of Force Encounters and also holds several law enforcement instructor certifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/schools\/school-of-public-service\/criminal-justice\/index.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discover more about the Criminal Justice program at Elizabethtown College.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College has announced the appointment of Timothy Fetzer to lead the College\u2019s efforts to establish a Police Academy. \u201cI&#8217;m excited to welcome Tim Fetzer as the new Director of the Elizabethtown College Police Academy,\u201d Elizabethtown College Director and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Kadee Crandall said. \u201cDirector Fetzer brings extensive experience and commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":19484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1279,197,1350],"class_list":["post-19431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-criminal-justice","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}