For Immediate Release: March 23, 2017
Ohio
Awards Certification to the Sheffield Village Police Department for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – The Sheffield
Village Police Department (Lorain 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 500
agencies employing over 27,000 officers (in all 88 counties, representing 79
percent of all law enforcement officers in Ohio and most of Ohio’s metropolitan
departments) 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 960 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 by the end of March.
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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