For Immediate Release: January 27, 2017
Ohio
Awards Certification to the Genoa Township Police Department
for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – The Genoa
Township Police Department (Delaware County) has adopted and implemented state
standards established by the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board
as part of the state’s efforts to strengthen community and police relations.
More than 350 agencies employing over 21,000
officers (or 64 percent of all law enforcement officers in Ohio, including
agencies and officers in most of Ohio’s metropolitan areas) are either
certified or in the process of becoming certified by meeting standards for the
use of force, including deadly force, and agency recruitment and hiring.
The standards are
the first of their kind in Ohio and were developed by the Collaborative in
August 2015.
The state has
partnered with the Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association and the Ohio Association
of Chiefs of Police to help certify Ohio’s nearly 1,000 law enforcement
agencies on a process to ensure that they are in compliance with Ohio’s new
standards.
The first list of
all Ohio compliant agencies will be published in March 2017. To be included in
the report, agencies must submit a compliance application to the Ohio Office of
Criminal Justice Services by Feb. 1, 2017.
For more
information on the Ohio Collaborative, the certification process for law
enforcement and the complete list of agencies who have been certified, please
visit: http://www.ocjs.ohio.gov/ohiocollaborative/
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For additional information, contact:
China Dodley at (614) 466-2551
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