Yakima, Washington police will use the Republican National Convention as a “paid training opportunity” to learn how to handle large scale protest events.

Yakima city council members are reviewing a contract proposed by the Cleveland Police Department that would cover the salaries, travel expenses and lodging for eight Yakima police officers, as well as a sergeant and a lieutenant, to help provide security for the GOP convention over four days starting July 18, the Yakima Herald reports.

The seemingly odd match-up spawned from a trip by Yakima police to Seattle last year to help provide security for a visit by Chinese President XI Jinping. The event gave Yakima officers a taste of managing a large-scale security event, and Yakima police Capt. Gary Jones asked Seattle police to set them up with similar gigs to help train officers in controlling crowds and protests.

Seattle officials later connected Jones with Cleveland police, according to the news site.

“It’s a paid training opportunity,” Jones said.

“National political conventions of both major parties typically generate protests, often large ones, outside the convention halls,” the Herald reports. “Both conventions are classified as ‘national special security events’ by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and passions surrounding the GOP presidential campaign have been running high, leading to speculation of a brokers or contested GOP convention.”

The 10 Yakima officers represent about 7.5 percent of the department’s 133 officer police force, and department officials are currently working to cover shifts for those who would trek to Quicken Loans Arena.

And if recent protests at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign rallies is any indication, those officers could be in for a very rude awakening.

In Chicago, Trump haters shot off guns, screamed ‘f*** you’ to pretty much anyone who would listen, relentlessly chanted profanities through blowhorns, and threatened serious violence until the event was canceled for security reasons, The American Mirror reports.

In an earlier stop in St. Louis, Missouri, Black Lives Matter protesters tried unsuccessfully to thwart Trump’s message, which resulted in a bloody confrontation with his supporters. In the same campaign stop, police allege protester April Foster “approached an officer and his horse, Dan, and began screaming in the horse’s face in an attempt to scare him,” according to Fox 4.

“When that did not work, Foster reportedly slapped the horse in the face with an open hand.”

And Donald Trump himself has repeatedly warned in recent weeks that there could be violence at the 2016 Republican convention if he falls just short of the 1,237 delegates necessary for an automatic nomination and the GOP establishment attempts to nominate someone else.

“I think you’d have riots,” Trump told CNN last week, according to The Washington Post.

Trump noted that he is “representing many millions of people” and they likely won’t take kindly to being ignored.

“If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, ‘I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short’ … I think you’d have problems like you’ve never seen before,” he said. “I think bad things would happen.”