Police chopper lands at Long Island high school as cops take over campus for career day

A Long Island precocious schoolhouse was transformed into a segment consecutive retired of a movie group Monday, complete pinch a makeshift constabulary academy and melodramatic chopper landing to people First Responder Career Day.

A Nassau County constabulary chopper theatrically touched down connected Roosevelt High School’s section arsenic students crowded nan landing area — eagerly capturing nan memorable infinitesimal connected their phones.

“This has ne'er happened before, we’ve ne'er had a chopper onshore connected our field before,” said Dr. Shawn Wightman, nan schoolhouse district’s superintendent.

Cops quickly took complete for nan day. K-9 units joined nan festivities, while mounted officers fto kids pet their horses and answered questions astir training and patrol work.

“It was a awesome opportunity for students to spot what rule enforcement and first responders do for a surviving and spot … it arsenic an action for a career,” Wightman said.

The arena gave students a front-row spot to nan criminal-justice field, pinch teens checking retired everything from fingerprinting kits and emergency aesculapian cogwheel to forensic nursing tools.

They were besides introduced to nan prospects of a profession way beyond being a bull — including crime-scene analysts, probation officers, tribunal officials and forensic nurses.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who stopped by nan event, told The Post nan extremity was two-fold: To show kids there’s a agleam early successful nationalist safety, and to thief span nan spread betwixt young group and rule enforcement.

“They get to spot nan constabulary successful a different light,” Blakeman, a Republican, said.

The extremity seemed to beryllium reached — pinch galore students admitting nan acquisition opened their eyes to imaginable profession paths and changed their position of police.

“It was really bully to get together arsenic a organization of students and spot that location is information successful nan organization we unrecorded in,” student Gabriela Gamez said.

Another student, Takyia Wilder, said she was now intrigued to study astir nan section of forensic nursing.

The arena was portion of a broader push to expose students successful underserved communities to real-world careers and springiness them a chance to prosecute straight pinch professionals — stepping distant pinch a amended consciousness of what’s imaginable post-graduation.

“We questioned, ‘Why don’t we person much divers rule enforcement?’ Blakeman said. “It’s astir apt because they don’t cognize nan opportunities that are available.”