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POST investigator reports Bledsoe County has corrected uncertified-officer issues; commission accepts update
Summary
Investigator Rebecca Cantrell told the POST Commission that Bledsoe County has made progress correcting use of uncertified officers and addressing missing preemployment paperwork; the commission accepted the report.
Investigator Rebecca Cantrell updated the Tennessee POST Commission on Sept. 19 about a multi-month inquiry into Bledsoe County practices involving uncertified deputies.
Cantrell said her May site visit found at least one noncertified deputy working alone in a school and identified three specific deputies named in the anonymous complaint. She told the commission she had obtained 911 dispatch records showing that some deputies were responding to calls by…
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