Yadkin County – Officer receives highest certification

RALEIGH — Officer Allen Grant Day of the Yadkin County Sheriff’s Office was awarded the Advanced Deputy Professional Law Enforcement Certificate by the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission on Sept. 5.

The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission was established in September 1983. The purpose of the commission is to upgrade the capabilities, competence and proficiency of sheriffs’ departmental personnel through programs, standards and procedures involving employment, improvement, career development and retention of the sheriffs’ office personnel.

The commission maintains certification files for more than 25,000 deputy sheriffs, detention officers and telecommunicators.

The purpose of the Advanced Deputy Professional Law Enforcement Certificate is to recognize the level of competence of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs serving North Carolina sheriffs’ offices, to foster increased interest in college education and professional law enforcement training and to attract highly qualified individuals into a law enforcement career.

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