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August 24, 2011

Loveland Herald

Miami Township police chief receives award with what is MIAMI TOWNSHIP going on.” Police Chief Steven Bailey The Egon received an award from a B i t t n e r national police accreditaAward is tion organization. presented to Bailey was given the law enforceEgon Bittner Award by the ment chief Commission for Accredita- Bailey executive tion of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) at the officers who have comgroup’s conference in manded a CALEA Accredited agency for 15 or more Cincinnati July 30. Bailey, who attended the continuous years. Bailey has led the Miami conference, said the meeting “keeps us up to date Township Police Depart-

ment since May 1995. The police department was first accredited by CALEA in March 1996. CALEA accredits law enforcement agencies in nine countries including the United States. The department has been re-accredited in 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010. The two most recent times the department was accredited it was recognized with flagship status.

Flagship status is designed to acknowledge CALEA accredited agencies that have demonstrated success in the accreditation process. The program also serves to provide other agencies seeking accreditation with examples of “best practices” on how to address compliance, policy development, file maintenance and other issues relating to the accreditation process.

“Being accredited by CALEA has made us a better police agency,” Bailey said. “To be accredited we have to comply with over 470 standards that are recognized by major professional law enforcement organizations as the best practices of the field. That compliance is assessed by law enforcement professionals from outside the department. About four

percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have accomplished this. Less than one percent have been recognized with flagship status. Miami Township can be very proud of the men and women of the police department who serve the community.” For more about your community, visit www. Cincinnati.com/miamitownship.

Friends help out mom of toddler pulled from pool By John Seney jseney@communitypress.com

MILFORD – Friends of a Milford woman whose 2year-old son almost drowned in a swimming pool have organized several fund-raisers to help with expenses. Landon Tincher was found July 29 floating face down in a pool at the home of his baby-sitter in Miami Township. Sgt. Al Fatute of the Miami Township Police Department said the boy was pulled from the pool and administered CPR by the baby-sitter. He then was transported to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center by Miami Township life squad members and was listed in critical condition. He remains in the hospital. Several friends of the boy’s mother, Mandee Reed,

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Two-year-old Landon Tincher almost drowned in a Miami Township pool July 29. He is being treated at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Friends of Landon’s mother, Mandee Reed, have planned several fund-raisers to help with expenses. have organized fund-raisers to help the family with expenses. Reed is a single mother with two older sons in addition to Landon. Katie Maddox of Miami Township, one of Reed’s friends, said a yard sale was held Aug. 13 in Miami Township. The sale included a number of donated items, including bicycles. Proceeds

benefited Reed and Landon. “A lot of families have donated items,” Maddox said. There also will be a funraising auction and raffle from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at the American Legion Post 450 in Milford, 450 Victor Stier Drive. Many businesses have donated items for the auction and raffle, Maddox said. Among the items are four box seat tickets for the Cincinnati Reds and an autographed Reds baseball. T-shirts will be sold at the event that say “Fighting for Landon.” Maddox said other benefits are being planned for Reed and Landon in September and October. Cheryl Smith of Miami Township is another friend helping with the fund-raising effort. Smith said she and Reed have been good friends

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since attending Milford High School together. “She helped me out in the past and now it’s my turn to return the favor,” Smith said. “I want to help her in any way I can.” In an email message, Reed said she wanted to get the word out on pool safety and getting kids in swim lessons and learning CPR. A bank account for cash contributions has been set up at Fifth Third Bank under the name “For the benefit of Mandee Reed and Landon.”

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