COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Branch County Sheriff’s Office has announced that two new recruits have been assigned to their road patrol program.
Branch County Sheriff John Pollack told the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that the recruits graduated from the 97th Kalamazoo Valley Law Enforcement Training Center.
Deputies Taylor Lewandowski and Jacob Taylor were sworn in after graduation.
Taylor began a 12-week Field Training Officer phase this past Monday while Lewandowski began the F.T.O. phase last Friday.
Lewandowski, Taylor and Deputy Cameron Thompson are part of the six Deputy Night Patrol initiative sought by the Sheriff’s Office and approved by Branch County Commissioners last year.
The Sheriff’s Department has received the grant money that covers the employees who are attending the Michigan Commission On Law Enforcement Standards certified academy in the amount of $48,000.
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I won’t to be one of the first to welcome new Deputies Lewandowski and Taylor to the Branch County Sheriff’s Department. We need to support them and all of the Sheriff Department employee’s who work to serve and protect the citizens of Branch County.