Parsons will be home to a new regional criminal justice training site for law enforcement. Agencies from 16 regional counties will report to the new center for criminal justice training. Officials hope to get the new center up and running in the next 90 days. The 16 counties to be served by the site are: Lyon, Greenwood, Elk, Chautauqua, Coffey, Woodson, Wilson, Montgomery, Anderson, Allen, Neosho, Labette, Linn, Bourbon, Crawford and Cherokee. “This is a huge step forward for our agency and our region,” said Parsons Police Sgt. Jason Ludwig. “Training is critical for smaller rural agencies where staff members have to be generalists, who have a wide range of abilities from crime response, criminal investigation, crime scene management and core skills from firearms, driving and defensive tactics.”Earlier this month, the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center training council voted unanimously to select Parsons as the new training site. The group met in Parsons with area officers and other law enforcement staff to look for a location in Southeast Kansas.
Source: Parsons Sun
