For Immediate Release: November 13, 2017
Ohio Awards Certification to the Kirtland
Police Department for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – The Kirtland Police
Department (Lake 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 nearly 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 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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