Ohio Awards Certification to the Strongsville Police Department for Adopting Standards

OCJS media release

For Immediate Release: May 31, 2017

Ohio Awards Certification to the Strongsville Police Department 
for Adopting Standards

COLUMBUS – The Strongsville Police Department (Cuyahoga 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

CLDodley@dps.ohio.gov