On the eve of the Ohio Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony, deputies, officers and troopers gathered on May 6 at the Statehouse for an event to recognize a training initiative to reduce law enforcement line-of-duty deaths nationwide to less than 100.
Retired officer Rob Winebrenner has been to many police memorials through the years, but he will never think of them the same way again, he said, after attending the 2015 Ohio Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony, which honored his son.
In the tri-county area of Gallia, Jackson and Meigs, the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) has had to be creative to meet the needs of the community.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Task Force on Criminal Justice and Mental Illness reported last month on the status of programs that received about $400,000 in grants awarded by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine in an effort to provide ongoing support for the mentally ill and their families.
After the tragic, fatal police shootings in Ohio and across the nation last year, I convened an advisory group to take an in-depth look at the state’s system for peace officer training.
These attorneys are often asked to act as lead prosecutors in cases in which there is a conflict of interest, or to serve as assistant prosecutors where specialized knowledge is needed.
A touch can say so much, and no one knows that better than the scientist who spent the past year pulling DNA from weapons at the BCI lab in Richfield.
When the same seven citizens were repeatedly having mental-health crises requiring law enforcement intervention in 2011, the officers at the Delaware Police Department knew something needed to be done to stop the cycle.
As a dad, Officer Michael Coleman of the Hamilton Police Department cares deeply about the training that law enforcement receives in regard to dealing with disturbance calls -- especially those involving a person in the midst of an apparent mental-health crisis.
Students at Perrin Woods Elementary in Springfield got a firsthand look at some of the science behind the efforts of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) when the BCI Science School visited last December.