Ohio Awards Certification, Recertification to 29 Agencies for Adopting Collaborative Board’s Standards
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – The Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services announced today the certification and recertification of 29 Ohio law enforcement agencies for state standards established by the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board.
Overall, there are 605 certified agencies that have met the initial standards. Additionally, 29,443 officers (representing over 86.84% of all law enforcement officers in Ohio, including most of Ohio’s metropolitan areas) are employed by an agency that is involved in some form of the certification process.
Please see list below of recently certified agencies:
- Brewster Police Department (Stark)
- Commercial Point Police Department (Pickaway)
- DeGraff Police Department (Logan)
- Geneva Police Department (Ashtabula)
- Gratis Police Department (Preble)
- Jackson Police Department (Jackson)
- Orab Police Department (Brown)
- New Miami Police Department (Butler)
- Smithville Police Department (Wayne)
- Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office (Trumbull)
- Village of Rockford Police Department (Mercer)
- Washington Township Police Department (Logan)
Please see list below of recently recertified agencies:
- Amberley Village Police Department (Hamilton)
- Butler Police Department (Richland)
- Carlisle Police Department (Warren)
- Champaign County Sheriff’s Office (Champaign)
- Delphos Police Department (Allen)
- Doylestown Police Department (Wayne)
- Fayette Police Department (Fulton)
- Forest Park Police Division (Hamilton)
- Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Police (Cuyahoga)
- Kirtland Police Department (Lake)
- Luckey Police Department (Wood)
- Middlefield Police Department (Geauga)
- Moraine Police Department (Montgomery)
- University of Findlay Police Department (Hancock)
- Wayne Police Department (Wood)
- Waynesville Police Department (Warren)
- Yellow Springs Police Department (Greene)
The Collaborative was formed in 2015 to create uniform minimum standards for Ohio’s law enforcement agencies. The first two standards were developed by the Collaborative in 2015 to improve the trust between citizens and law enforcement officers.
Additional standards established by the Collaborative address community engagement, bias-free policing, body-worn cameras, vehicular pursuits, telecommunicator training, employee misconduct, mass protests, agency wellness, and interaction with minors. The standards are the first of their kind in Ohio and were developed and established by the Collaborative as part of the state’s efforts to strengthen community and police relations.
The state has partnered with the Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police to help certify Ohio’s nearly 900 law enforcement agencies on a process to ensure that they are in compliance with Ohio’s standards. The complete list of agencies who have and have not been certified can be found at by accessing the Collaborative website.
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For additional information, contact:
Lindsey Bohrer, (614) 752-6585
Lrbohrer@dps.ohio.gov
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