DENVER - The Colorado State Patrol is working with risk management officials in the state to determine if it needs to alter its procedures at the CSP Academy in light of a training exercise that left three cadets seriously ill.
9Wants to Know reported on Monday that one of the cadets remains hospitalized more than a month after the Jan. 9 exercise. It also reported three cadets suffered various stages of renal failure.
Sgt. Mike Baker told 9NEWS this happened during the first week of the academy's 22-week training regimen.
The class of cadets is scheduled to graduate in late spring to early summer.
On Tuesday, Baker confirmed the State Patrol is reviewing its procedures in light of the problem, but he reaffirmed that the office has consistently made it a priority to keep cadets hydrated during training.
Randy Novotny is the president of the Association of Colorado State Patrol Professionals and has spoken to two of the cadets in question.
"They are hoping and wanting to get back to the academy at some point in the future," he said during a telephone interview on Tuesday.
Novotny says he wasn't overly concerned with cadet treatment at the academy and didn't feel the hospitalizations were indicative of a wider problem.
"It's something we have to go through. It's all for a purpose," he said. "We do everything we can to keep them around because we already have so much invested in them."
The Colorado State Patrol Academy did experience the death of a cadet in 2006. Cadet Timothy Pudder, 40, died of sudden cardiac arrest shortly after a training exercise.
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