Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
PARTICIPANTS in a Sept. 4 training on how to interview children gather outside of the Ironwood Public Safety Department. Representatives from the Child Abuse Training Unit at the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan, as well as from LMTI Training Company and the Three Rivers Police Department, directed the training. Persons receiving training included members of the IPSD, the Michigan State Police and sheriff's departments from Gogebic and Ontonagon counties. From left, row one, are Deputy Mackenzie Prey, GCSD; Julie Knop, director of the PAAM Child Abuse Training Unit; Megan Aukerman, LMTI; and Deputy Jamie Moll, GCSD. Row two: Trooper James Norden, MSP; Lt. Matt Sterbenz, IPSD; Officer David Magnuson, IPSD; Deputy Lucis Bucknell and Deputy Aaron White, both of GCSD. Row three: Deputy Matt Ferrard, OCSD; Officer Jason Roberts, IPSD; Deputy Ryan Zawodny GCSD; Sam Smallcombe, chief deputy at Three Rivers Police Department; Deputy Keegan Bolen GCSD; Officer P.J. Rickard, IPSD; Sgt. Brandon Lyons, GCSD; and Officer Colin Clausen, IPSD.
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Public Safety Department hosted a Sept. 4 training session for local law enforcement agencies on the forensic interviewing of children.
Leading the training were Julie Knop, the director of the Child Abuse Training Unit at the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan; Megan Aukerman of the LMTI Training Company; and Sam Smallcombe, chief deputy of the Three Rivers Police Department.
"All three of them were terrific to work with," said Lt. Matthew Sterbenz of the IPSD.
Sterbenz added that officers were grateful to attend and made several positive remarks about the i...
