(PHOTO PROVIDED / THE VILLAGE REPORTER)
FURTHERING THEIR EDUCATION … Congratulations to City of Bryan Police Department Patrolman Justin Coffman and Patrolman John Rathke on receiving the Robert F. Flightner Memorial Law Enforcement Scholarship. This annual scholarship is for the training and education of law enforcement officers in Williams County. Pictured from left to right are Patrolman Coffman, Bryan Area Foundation Scholarship Committee Member Dottie Hallett, and Patrolman Rathke. Patrolman Coffman, who just finished his first year of teaching at the police academy at Northwest State Community College, is looking to add to his credentials by completing a course in the use of impact weapons. The $750 scholarship will help him take the class and use his new knowledge to broaden his instruction abilities at the police academy and provide in-service training at the City of Bryan Police Department. Patrolman Rathke, an assigned narcotics investigator with the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force (MAN Unit), will use the $1,500 scholarship to attend the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy. When done with the two-week course, he plans to use this new information to instruct academy cadets and new law enforcement officers enabling them to be even more successful in their role, and in turn, make their community safer. Congratulations again to both Patrolman Coffman and Patrolman Rathke and we wish them much luck in their future endeavors.