DeWine: Nearly half of Ohio police departments not certified in new standards

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine once again shifted the focus of his regular coronavirus briefing to the issue of police reform Tuesday.
Many of his recent briefings have taken such a shift since widespread protests have taken place across the state and around the country following the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
DeWine, who had already formed a Minority Health Strike Force as a part of the state's coronavirus response, has broadened his focus on minority health issues to also include infant mortality, poverty and, most recently, incidents of police mistreatment.
In Tuesday's briefing, the governor began by turning attention to police reforms called for by the Ohio Collaborative Community Police Advisory Board, which was formed in 2014 under then-Governor John Kasich.
Those reforms included implementing new standards for things like recruitment, use of force and use of body cameras.
DeWine said on Tuesday that only a little more than half of the state's more than 800 police departments had either been certified under the advisory board's standards or are in the process of being certified.
In Mahoning county, 13 of 22 law enforcement agencies are certified, either completely or partially, in the group's standards.
Departments in Mahoning county that are not certifed, along with the number of officers in the department, are:

In Trumbull county, 12 of 23 agencies are certified, in full or in part, in the standards.
In Trumbull county, the agencies that are not certified are:

In Columbiana county, only one agency, the Salineville police department, are in the process of certification. The other 16 law enforcement agencies in the county are not certified or in the process of becoming certified.
All other departments in the county, along with the number of employees, are:

A complete report on agencies around the state and where they stand in terms of certification can be found here .
The governor encouraged those agencies who are not certified to make an effort towards becoming certified, but also went further.
DeWine called on police departments to adopt stricter policies on employee misconduct, vehicle pursuits and best practices for dealing with mass protests. Those standards would include determining when it is and is not appropriate to use crowd control tactics like tear gas.