For Immediate Release: May 31, 2017
Ohio Awards Certification to the Kelleys
Island Police Department for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – The Kelleys Island
Police Department (Erie 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 520 agencies
employing over 27,000 officers (in all 88 counties representing 80 percent of
all law enforcement officers in Ohio 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 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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