Well lets see, ANY new P.O. is not help to this departments manpower shortage for well over a year. So in reality if they started a class tomorro it would not be much help until 2007 when they go on their own. Sorry to tell it how it is. Best of luck to you in the process. Also on the class size, I don't think the classes can become larger as (for a reason we all know) lack of manpower to put them through the training. If we had the manpower on the street there could be more instructors for the