For Immediate Release: April 24, 2017
Ohio
Awards Certification to the Pike County Sheriff’s Office for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – Pike
County Sheriff’s Office 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 80
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 was published March 31. The report, which includes
information on the certification process and the complete list of agencies who
have and have not been certified, can be found at: http://www.ocjs.ohio.gov/ohiocollaborative/
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For additional information, contact:
China Dodley at (614) 466-2551
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