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I am pleased to announce that on Friday July 10th 2015 three (3) replacement hired deputies from the Steuben County Sheriff’s office graduated from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy Tier I basic session 205 in Plainfield Indiana. Two of which graduated with Honors. The Academy's Basic course for new police officers consists of over 600 hours of training in a variety of areas. Criminal and traffic law, firearms, emergency vehicle operations, physical tactics, EMS awareness and human behavior are some of the major areas of instruction during this course. A variety of other police related subjects such as accident investigation, criminal investigation, domestic violence and sexual assault, water rescue training, Standardized Field Sobriety Test, crime prevention and drug and narcotics are included in the areas an officer must study before graduating. The course of study is designed to incorporate practical as well as classroom exercises so the officers have a better idea of how they will react to situations they will encounter when working in the community.

Graduating deputies are Deputy Adam Crall, Honors Graduate Deputy Evan Howe and Honors Graduate Deputy Seth Fifer.
Honor graduate requirements are 95% GPA or above, Higher physical fitness standard of achievement, Firearms qualifications of Expert status and no disciplinary marks during the entire session.

Each of the new deputies have been assigned field training officers and their 15 week field training program begins Monday July 13th. Upon successful completion of Field Training, each deputy will be assigned a patrol shift to begin serving the citizens of Steuben County as a patrol deputy.

Attached is photograph at the Academy graduation Friday July 10th. From left to right – Sheriff Tim Troyer, Deputy Adam Crall, Deputy Evan Howe, Deputy Seth Fifer and Chief Deputy Rodney Robinson