HPD Lieutenant Jeremy Scott Lewis graduated as a member of the 289th session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Lt. Lewis is one of 197 law enforcement officers from 47 states, the District of Columbia, and 23 countries who graduated from this year’s program.

The FBI National Academy is a 10-week program of professional study and physical training for U.S. and international law enforcement managers.  Nationally, fewer than one percent of officers have the opportunity to attend the program.

In addition to the professional training, FBI National Academy attendees undergo fitness training and graduates undergo their final fitness challenge on the “Yellow Brick Road,” a grueling 6.1-mile run through a hilly, wooded trail built by US Marines. Along the way, Academy attendees must climb over walls, run through creeks, jump through simulated windows, scale rock faces with ropes, crawl under barbed wire in muddy water, maneuver across a cargo net, and more.

Since 1947, HPD has nominated several officers to attend the Academy, with 10 graduates currently ranging in rank from Lieutenant to Police Chief.

Lieutenant Lewis has served the Hawai‘i Police Department for more than 23 years, starting his career as a patrol officer in both North Kohala and Kona. In 2005 he was assigned to the Area II Vice Section as a Police Officer III. In 2015 Lewis was promoted to Sergeant/Detective and assigned to the Area II Vice Section and subsequently Kona Patrol. In 2023, he was promoted to Lieutenant in Kona Patrol where he currently is assigned to “B“ watch.  He was also attached to the Special Response Team (SRT) from 2011 untill 2023.

In a press release Lieutenant Lewis said, “I feel deeply honored and privileged to have been selected to attend the prestigious FBI National Academy, where I had the chance to learn from, and collaborate with, some of the finest law enforcement professionals in the world.”

 

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