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Each year, the Ohio Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Conference features an awards luncheon in which officers past and present, and community members who support law enforcement, are recognized for their achievements during the past year. The 2017 

OPOTA’s Advanced Training Section provides specialized instruction for peace officers in areas such as community relations, de-escalation, report writing, subject control, driving, and firearms-related courses. In addition to these topics, the advanced training staff also conducts instructor-level courses and scenario-based, simulation, and e-learning courses using various platforms and methods.

A new crime fighter has been unleashed to sniff out evidence in Ohio.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine traveled around the state Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 providing details of his 12-point plan to combat the opioid epidemic and get drugmakers to pay for it.

In the third installment of his “Ideas” series addressing the state’s opioid crisis, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine focused on the medical and treatment community.

The opioid epidemic is a human tragedy of epic proportion. The foster care system is bursting at the seams, jails are serving as detox centers, employers can’t find qualified applicants who can pass a drug test, and tragically, at least 15 Ohioans are dying from overdoses every day.

A new program from the Attorney General’s Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) is bringing free, scenario-based training to the doorsteps of local law enforcement agencies.

A mystery involving a farmer and his dog is at the heart of a free, 26-part lesson plan that uses hands-on experiments to teach science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio chalked up a repeat win on July 12 during the second annual “quickball” tournament organized by the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation.

Officials at the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission (OPOTC) are documenting who among Ohio’s 33,340 law enforcement officers have completed statutorily mandated training and reminding those who haven’t that the deadline for doing so is next year.