NCSHP Honors the Past and Looks to the Future at 90 Year Celebration
By Kirsten Barber, Digital Media Specialist
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On July 1, 1929, after the General Assembly authorized the State Highway Patrol’s creation, 37 individuals took an oath of office and became North Carolina’s first state troopers. These patrol members monitored miles of highway on Harley Davidson motorcycles, enforcing motor vehicle laws and assisting the motoring public.
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OSDT Delivers on Training for Critical Positions to Ensure Public Safety
By George McCue, Writer
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DPS is a department with great needs to recruit and retain a prepared, able workforce. The lion’s share of “certified positions” are within the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice: That includes correctional officers (COs), probation and parole officers (PPOs), juvenile justice officers and juvenile court counselors. Before new hires for those positions can get in the field, they must receive proper training set by the N.C. Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission. And as they continue their careers, these professionals require
in-service training to maintain their certification.
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NCDPS Team Named State Employee
Wellness Challenge Champions
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The Proclaimers sang about walking 500 miles and Vanessa Carlton said she’d walk 1,000, but teams who participated in the spring Miles for Wellness Challenge walked a whole lot more! For eight weeks at the start of spring, 432 teams of 10 people or less competed to see who could collectively walk the farthest in the Office of State Human Resources’ biannual competition.
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New Commissioner of Prisons
Hits the Ground Running
By Jerry Higgins, Communications Officer
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An important aspect of Commissioner of Prisons Todd Ishee’s job is visiting every state prison and speaking with staff and offenders. Since joining DPS, Ishee has hit the ground
running. Recently, Ishee visited Anson Correctional Institution in Polkton with Director of Prisons Kenneth Lassiter and Deputy Secretary for Health Services Chris
Holland to tour the work being done at the facility, as well as meet and speak with staff and offenders.
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Samarcand Helps Enhance School Safety with New Partnership
By Clyde Roper, Communications Officer
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One of the top priorities for DPS is enhancing school safety. Among the school safety initiatives recently identified by Secretary Erik A. Hooks in
his letter
to law enforcement and school officials was collaboration between state and local law enforcement. Samarcand Training Academy is helping to lead that charge with the start of its recent partnership with the North Carolina Justice Academy.
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Engineers Spend Their Annual Training Building What They Need, And Learn New Skills In The Process
By Staff Sgt. Jonathan Shaw, NCNG Public Information Office
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To increase the strength of its forces, the North Carolina Army National Guard is building two new structures to help maintain vehicles and provide storage for soldiers at its Raeford Armory. Soldiers from the 429th Concrete Platoon, the 105th Engineering Battalion, and the 258th Engineering Utilities Detachment spent their annual training honing their vertical engineering skills constructing the second of the two buildings.
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Buncombe County PPOs Receive
Letter of Commendation
By Greg Thomas, Communications Officer
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Congratulations to seven probation/parole Officers (PPOs) in Buncombe County. They received a Letter of Commendation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina, for assisting in the apprehension of a suspect who was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The officers were commended for their professionalism and dedication. The letter also noted Chief Probation/Parole Officer (CPPO) Jenni Holste’s planning of the warrantless search and PO Jared Sutton who de-escalated a potentially dangerous situation when he confronted the armed suspect who refused to comply to verbal commands.
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Pictured on front row (from left to right): PO Jordan Fields, PO Jared Sutton,
PO Kerri Hunter, PO Charity Anderson; Back row (from left to right): PO Ian Lance,
PO Jake Stamey and CPPO Jenni Holste.
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Quick Reminders:
• Disciplinary: if employee has disciplinary action, rate “Does Not Meet” for associated goal(s) and/or value(s).
• LOA: If manager is out on LOA, the work unit should request or change the supervisor relationship in the HR Payroll system.
• Vacant managers: the system will automatically jump to the next level up for the manager and indirect manager.
• Employees with less than 6 months in a position should be rated N/A, employees who have transferred, managers should refer to the Performance Evaluation Transfer and Separations (PETS) task or request information from the previous manager for input on the ratings.
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