January 26, 2012 Marietta College Campus Police to become “Special Reserve Deputies.” www.privateofficer.com
Marietta OH Jan 26 2012 The Washington County Sheriff’s Office will be partnering with the Marietta College Campus Police to introduce eight new “Special Reserve Deputies.”
Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks says they will have more eyes and ears while the Campus Police will get more training. “I think it’s going to be a really tremendous asset for us. You know in the recent weeks we could’ve used some reserve units as far as some crime scenes we had to maintain for awhile and the murder we had here in the last couple of weeks it would’ve been a big benefit to us.”
Mincks said he and Marietta College Campus Police Chief, Tom Saccenti, have been working closely to seal this deal. They hope their agencies will work just as closely in years to come. “It gives our officers a chance to get to know fellow law enforcement officers in the county, to get to work with them, and establish a really solid relationship. Since we do back each other up within our own agencies.”
The Campus Police will still patrol the campus. But they will also have the extra responsibility of more training and at times being called out to help the Sheriff’s Office.
“It’s an extra set of eyes whenever you have another officer out there riding with ours and in the middle of the night and you stop a car or you go to a house, you know that somebody is there behind you. And that’s what we’re looking forward to, having a little more man power to assist our officers,” Mincks says.
The Campus Police are fully certified by the state– but nothing compares to experience.
“And we provide them with over 100 hours of training every single year in crime scene processing, emergency medical response, things like that, but we want to make sure they are able to continually use those skills to ensure that they are called to upon campus.”
The Campus Police will do an initial training with the Sheriff’s Office then will do monthly ride alongs, as well as assist in investigations.
Source:WTAP
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