A Bosch star reveals he is coaching to turn out to be a real-life police officer on the age of 65. The police procedural, which premiered in 2014 and ended earlier this yr, stars Titus Welliver because the titular Harry Bosch, a former particular forces officer turned detective for the Los Angeles Police Division who investigates numerous murders and police corruption.
Nonetheless, former Bosch star Jerry O’Donnell is coaching to turn out to be a real-life police officer for the Asheville Police Division in North Carolina. Speaking to the Asheville Watchdog, O’Donnell detailed the extraordinary bodily coaching required and mirrored on his need for public service. Learn his full feedback beneath:
After we do PT, we go on these runs within the parking storage — you run up, run down, run the parking storage. And you then do workout routines — 15 air squats, run up one other stage. Do 50 push ups, run up one other stage. Do 50 burpees.
I at all times assume while you slide into house on the finish of your life, you need to be all used up. You realize — soiled, scarred up, a little bit bloody, and spent.
I really feel blessed and grateful to nonetheless have some means, so you recognize, that’s like a way of objective — to be of service.
O’Donnell served 4 years within the U.S. Military’s 82nd Airborne Division earlier than changing into an actor, taking part in numerous regulation enforcement roles in reveals like Bosch, Dexter, Mad Males, Seal Workforce, And not using a Hint, N.Y.P.D. Blue, and JAG.
O’Donnell is roughly midway by way of his Primary Legislation Enforcement Coaching (BLET). He’ll take the state examination in mid-January and, if he passes, will graduate on January 30, and be sworn in someday in March. Afterward, he should full an extra month of post-BLET coaching adopted by three phases of subject coaching. Altogether, the method to turn out to be a totally certified APD officer takes a couple of yr.
Division spokesperson Rick Rice says that O’Donnell is “actually the oldest [APD recruit] within the final 20-30 years,” and “in all probability the oldest ever.” Usually, new recruits are of their 20s or early 30s.
Nonetheless, O’Donnell is seemingly reduce from a distinct fabric. He is performed numerous regulation enforcement officers over the a long time, however now he is making ready to tackle the function in actual life, supplied he clears each requirement, each written and bodily.
Primarily based on the books by Michael Connelly, Bosch initially ran for seven seasons on Prime Video from 2014 to 2021 and was adopted by the sequel collection Bosch: Legacy, which concluded after three seasons on Amazon Freevee in April 2025, and the spinoff Ballard, which follows Maggie Q’s titular detective Renee Ballard, premiered on Prime Video in July 2025 and has been renewed for a second season.
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2015 – 2021-00-00
- Community
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Prime Video
- Showrunner
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Eric Ellis Overmyer
- Administrators
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Alex Zakrzewski, Ernest R. Dickerson, Patrick Cady, Aaron Lipstadt, Adam Davidson, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Kevin Dowling, Neema Barnette, Tim Hunter, Zetna Fuentes, Christine Moore, Jim McKay, Laura Belsey, Matt Earl Beesley, Phil Abraham, Roxann Dawson, Sarah Pia Anderson, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Tara Nicole Weyr, Thomas Carter, Hagar Ben-Asher
- Writers
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Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, Tom Bernardo, Elle Johnson, John Mankiewicz, Shaz Bennett, Alex Meenehan, Katie Pyne, Osokwe Vasquez, Lolis Eric Elie, Jessica Kivnik, Mitzi Roberts