Sheriff's Deputies Graduate From Regional Police Academy

Five deputies with the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office graduated Friday from the Cherokee County Regional Police Academy in Canton.

Deputies Aaron Elrod, Daniel Rowland, David Moss, Michael Imbriano and Jose Zarate successfully completed 408 hours of police training over the past 11 weeks. The deputies are currently assigned to the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center.

The Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) is responsible for the coordination of the delivery of training to all state public safety officers, job specific training programs for state agencies, advanced and specialized training for both state and local peace officers, chief executive training and supervisory and management training.

The Basic Mandate course, which is required to be a peace officer in Georgia, is an 11-week course which teaches the fundamentals of law enforcement.

This is the fifth academy class to graduate from the Roger D. Garrison Law Enforcement Training Center.

Photo: from left to right, Chief Deputy Joe Perkins, Deputies Aaron Elrod, Daniel Rowland, David Moss, Michael Imbriano, Jose Zarate and Captain Bill Smith. Credit: Cherokee Sheriff’s Office.