Heather Glenn Youth Police Academy returns with record turnout
Nineteen young people joined the fifth Heather Glenn Youth Police Academy, the largest class since it began in 2022.
The fifth annual Heather Glenn Youth Police Academy drew 19 young people from across the area, the largest class since the program began in 2022. Tell City Police said the academy opened Sunday and carries forward a vision Sgt. Heather Glenn had for Perry County before she led its first class.
The academy was renamed in Glenn’s memory in July 2023 after her death in the line of duty, and that history still shapes why the program exists. It gives students a direct look at police work beyond emergency calls and headlines, with hands-on activities built around discipline, teamwork, investigations, traffic safety, emergency response and decision-making under pressure.
Glenn was a 20-year law enforcement veteran who served with the Tell City Police Department and the Perry County Sheriff’s Office. The Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial lists her as 47 years old, badge number 338. She was shot and killed July 3, 2023, while attempting to arrest a subject at Perry County Memorial Hospital, 8885 IN-237 in Tell City.
The suspect was identified as Sean Hubert, 34, and officers returned fire, killing him. That shooting remains one of the most painful public-safety moments in Perry County, and the academy now sits at the intersection of remembrance and recruitment, giving young residents a chance to meet officers in a setting that is structured, supervised and separate from a crisis scene.
Tell City has expanded Glenn’s memorial footprint beyond the academy. The city maintains an in memoriam page for her, dedicated a memorial monument, and renamed a section of State Road 237 in front of the hospital as the Sergeant Heather J. Glenn Memorial Highway.
The turnout matters because the academy is no longer a one-off tribute. Five years in, the program has become a fixed part of the county’s public-safety calendar, and the 19 participants this year show that officers still see value in teaching local students how law enforcement works, how officers make decisions under pressure and how the county remembers one of its own.
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