Police Department Manual Gets OK From Commission

After months of combing through, page by page, the Huron City Commission approved an updated Police Department Policy and Procedures manual. Commissioner Kerwin Haeder, who during the Commissions reorganization last night moves from Public Safety Commissioner to Utilities Commissioner, spent a great deal of time with Police Chief Gary Will, Jr. updating the manual…

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Mayor Dave McGirr called the policy book a living breathing document…

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McGirr says the manual is not intended to allow the Commission and not the Chief run the Police Department…

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Certian, undisclosed insurance mandates are a second reason for the revisions to the policy manual. Many of the procedural portions of the guidelines were unchanged.