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Ohio Implements
community-police ties recommendations
Task Force Recommendations Include New Statewide Standards for Law
Enforcement Departments in Key Areas
COLUMBUS – Today Governor John R. Kasich took action to begin
implementing the recommendations of Ohio’s Task Force on Community and
Police Relations by creating a new, permanent standards-writing body
that will issue policies for how Ohio’s law enforcement agencies can
make concrete improvements in key, controversial areas and begin
strengthening the bonds between police and the communities they serve.
The new statewide standards—the first of their kind for Ohio—will be
developed by the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board, a
12-member entity created today by the governor by executive order and
to be composed of law enforcement and community members. The
Collaborative’ s first job will be to immediately begin creating
standards governing the use of deadly force and hiring and recruiting
to ensure high-quality, diverse and professional law enforcement
personnel. The Collaborative will also begin developing standards
for other task force recommendations, will continue taking feedback
from the public and will report annually on its work and the compliance
of local law enforcement agencies.
The recommendations that the Collaborative will begin implementing were
developed over the past several months as the task force traveled Ohio
to get feedback from local communities and study the best practices in
law enforcement. The 600-page Task Force report includes
recommendations, testimony, supporting documentation, and best
practices that will serve as a blueprint for action. Kasich
created the task force in December 2014 after a series of incidents in
Ohio and the nation brought to light the challenging situations that
exist in too many places between communities and police.
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