Alaska Police Corps participants become members of police departments in geographic areas that have a great need of additional officers and are expected to be deployed to challenging assignments where they can be most effective. Each participant is tentatively assigned to an eligible law enforcement agency at the time he or she is accepted into the Alaska Police Corps. No more than 10 percent of a state's participants may be assigned to state police agencies. All Police Corps officers must be placed on community patrol and ordinarily must serve all four years on community patrol. The Alaska Police Corps, if and where feasible, will arrange for participants to serve in areas of great need where they have community or family ties.
Police departments receive case assistance.
Participants have the same rights and responsibilities as other officer of the same rank and tenure. After receiving a degree and graduating from the Alaska Police Corps 18-week residential academy, participants go to work for a police agency. Participants must meet all of the agency's hiring standards. They must be compensated at the same rate of pay and receive the same benefits as other officers of the same rank and tenure. Fairbanks Police Department and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as co-lead agencies will work in cooperation with local agencies and organizations.