Meetings For Sheriff’s Officers’ Wives Expand
By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews
WARSAW — Special monthly meetings for wives of Kosciusko County Sheriff’s officers are now open to those whose husbands don’t work for KCSO.
Kosciusko County Sheriff Kyle Dukes shared that news with Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Merit Board members at their meeting on Wednesday, June 8.
“So the deputy sheriffs’ wives group … they get together every month for a mental health night, so a month and a half ago at the monthly meeting … they opened it up to all the police officers’ wives,” he said. “It went extremely well and to the point where they want to continue doing this with all the wives.”
In another business, the board:
- Heard a compliment from Dukes regarding Doug Light helping organize the active shooter training for area educators and first responders that occurred Wednesday in Winona Lake along with Kosciusko County Emergency Management Director Ed Rock and school officials. Light works for the KCSO and is a school resource officer for Wawasee Community School Corp.
- Heard from Dukes that the KCSO is to host Camp H.E.R.O. for kids again in July. It teaches kids about police as well as topics like CPR and first aid.
- Heard from Dukes that 80 people were at work release at the time of the meeting.
- Heard from Kosciusko County Jail Commander 1st. Sgt. Shane Coney that there were 241 people incarcerated in the jail as of the time of the meeting.
- Heard a reminder from Coney that the next class of the county’s Jail Chemical Addiction Program (JCAP) graduates on Friday, June 17.
- Heard from Coney that a jail employee would be leaving soon for a job with the Warsaw Police Department so he’s going to be looking for someone to fill that role.