Finally back from the 275th session of the FBI National Academy. I graduated on March 15th and was able to come back home the same day. It was a long ten weeks of training but well worth the effort.

Recruitment for the open patrol officer position continues and we are in the interview stage of the process now. We have narrowed our search down to approximately ten very well qualified applicants. Our new search process, headed by Sgt. Sean Lundry and HR Manager Angie Welty, yielded over 90 applicants. A significant increase over our last recruitment effort.

Budget process continued as I returned. More to come on that at a later date.

The records department will begin offering fingerprint services soon. Most likely, this will begin sometime in May of this year. There has been a high demand for this service since we stopped offering this to our citizens over two years ago. Now that we have a fully staffed records department, we are able to offer this to the public again. This will provide the police department with an additional revenue stream as well.