RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — In the wake of several recruits testing positive for COVID-19, the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, which offers comprehensive law enforcement, fire, and correctional custody public safety training for law enforcement and fire agencies throughout California, recently announced that the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had temporarily suspended their academy training program.

Although officials have made no connections, the announcement comes on the heels of the death of one of the academy’s recruits early last August, as well as the COVID-19 related deaths of two of their department members; including Deputies Terrell Young and Dave [...]