Jan 12, 2021 / 09:00 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Could major changes be coming for Indiana law enforcement officers? A committee of state lawmakers Tuesday took a big step forward.
The panel of lawmakers advanced a proposal to create guidelines to help police agencies in hiring and training and to create other measures to increase trust from the public.
“It’s historic,” said state Rep. Greg Steuerwald, a Republican from Avon, who spent the past six months conversing with various law-enforcement agencies before writing
House Bill 1006. It would require a state law-enforcement training board to establish mandatory de-escalation training guidelines.
“They said ‘Listen. We have 99.9% wonderful, great people and we do not want the 0.1% who do not act accordingly, to cause us issues. So, let’s deal with that. ”