For Immediate Release: March 15, 2018
Ohio Awards Certification to the Delphos
Police Department for Adopting Standards
COLUMBUS – The Delphos Police
Department (Allen/Van Wert Counties) 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 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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