Holmes County hosts statewide law enforcement leadership training
Sheriff’s Office leaders and supervisors spent eight hours in Millersburg on tactics, liability and supervision that could shape the next county standoff or use-of-force review.
At Harvest Ridge Event Center in Millersburg, Holmes County law-enforcement supervisors spent an eight-hour day reviewing how to lead through a crisis that could involve a deputy standoff, a force review, or a supervisor’s split-second decision. The Command Ready course put legal clarity and tactical confidence at the center of the discussion, with officials from across Ohio traveling in for the session.
The training ran Wednesday, June 24, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and was listed at $200. It carried approval for eight hours of CPT and eight hours of assignment-based training.
Chief Scott Hughes led the program. Hughes is chief of police in Hamilton Township, Warren County, and has also served as an academy commander and advanced law-enforcement training coordinator. He is certified through the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission. The course is for sergeants through command staff, and Hughes and Bob Meader have more than 43 years of combined leadership experience in supervisory ranks.
The topics went straight to the problems that can weaken an agency under pressure: unmotivated or underperforming officers, leadership presence, use-of-force investigations, civil liability, failure to supervise, failure to train and qualified immunity.
The sheriff’s office employs about 56 people and has full police jurisdiction across all municipalities, villages and townships in the county. That means the office is responsible not only for emergency response, but also for court security, service of papers, jail operations, extradition and prisoner transport.
The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office was first established in 1824, and its current building opened in October 1994. The Holmes County Jail, at 8105 Township Road 574 in Holmesville, opened at its current location in 1994 and holds up to 60 inmates.
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