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In general, a reserve program is a good thing. It lets a department beef up their staffing quickly for events like football games, presidential visits, etc, and do so in a cost-effective way. Ohio law requires anyone with arrest authority to complete a police academy, which used to be about 420 hours on a variety of topics. I'm pretty sure Oklahoma requires a CLEET card, but I'm not sure on the amount of training currently required.
I think 380 hours is what the articles were saying for the CLEET training.
I also think the reserve program is a good idea and I'm not even opposed to the reservists being part-time volunteers. I'm just not entirely sure we should be giving them guns and then putting them in volatile situations.