On the Job 

A police officer who saved a woman from a knife-wielding attacker, six others who were stalked by an angry gunman, and a crew who rescued a man from a burning van were among the more than three dozen individuals and groups honored in October at the Ohio Attorney General’s 2015 Law Enforcement Conference. 

The Child Abduction Response Team (CART) program is seeking coordinators.

United States v. Bah, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit, July 24, 2015

Victims of domestic violence in Logan County have had to travel at least 30 miles to seek emergency shelter, but a $416,676 grant from the Ohio Attorney General’s Expanding Services and Empowering Victims Initiative is changing that.

In an effort to standardize the training of Ohio’s peace officers, Attorney General Mike DeWine asked the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission (OPOTC) to adopt a set of pre-certification standards for academies.

Peace officers and troopers are required to complete 11 hours of Continuing Professional Training (CPT) this year, up from four hours last year, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the requirements in October during the opening session of the Law Enforcement Conference. 

Blue Courage, a nationally recognized program containing workshops that cover topics such as police culture, resilience, and positive psychology, has been added to the basic and advanced training required of Ohio’s law enforcement officers. 

When I started my career as a Greene County assistant prosecuting attorney, heroin was a drug found in the back alleys of big cities. 

Efforts by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to fight the state’s heroin epidemic drew the attention of 60 Minutes, which put together a “Heroin in the Heartland” segment focusing on drug use in the suburbs of Columbus.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Heroin Unit, developed in 2013 to help law enforcement pursue high-level traffickers and to work with communities affected by the opiate epidemic, combines the talents of the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC), the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the Special Prosecutions Section and drug-abuse outreach specialists.