On the Job 

Sarah Shendy is a veteran Copley police officer, an OPOTA trainer and a Muslim woman who has had such a positive experience in policing that she would recommend the career to anyone, especially minorities. 
 

The 2019 Law Enforcement Conference, hosted in the fall by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, celebrated the great work being done by Ohio peace officers and their partners. Here are the winners of the Distinguised Law Enforcement Awards.

OPOTA has grant money available to reimburse law enforcement officers for tuition to certain traffic safety courses. 
 

One of the questions that inevitably arises after a school shooting is: When the shooter clearly showed signs of trouble, why wasn’t the attack prevented?

ALLIANCE, Ohio — When the transition from elementary to intermediate school proved difficult for Carter, he found a refuge in a martial arts program for kids run by Police Officer Roy Tittle.

What does your new job entail? The attorney general has set four priorities to fight human trafficking, and it’s my job to help him accomplish them. They are:

I wish Julia Roberts and Richard Gere had never made “Pretty Woman.” That movie, a Cinderella story about a prostitute who finds love and a good man in the course of her working life, begs a question: Why should society tell two adults that one cannot pay the other for sex?

At 91, Howard Mullen owns an official Meigs County Sheriff's Office deputy’s uniform, a 1947 Ford kitted out like an old-time police car and the record as Ohio’s longest-certified law officer. But since he started in 1953, he has always served the sheriff’s office on a part-time, volunteer basis.

Battling the opioid epidemic — and saving lives — must encompass a holistic approach, one involving law enforcement, treatment, education and prevention. That last component calls for a thorough exploration of what we can do to stop more people from falling victim to opioid addiction. 

For years now, people have recognized the serious effects of traumatic brain injury on pro football players and young athletes. Now Ohio advocates for domestic violence survivors are connecting the dots for a population whose most common injuries, according to the CDC, involve the head, neck and face.