The City of Alliance is extremely pleased to announce that Police Chief David Leavitt was sworn-in as a fully certified police officer at last night’s council meeting after having completed the lengthy and intensive reciprocity process that resulted in receiving his certification from the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center.
The vetting process to ensure that Chief Leavitt met all Nebraska standards included a thorough evaluation of education, training, continuing education, and experience. Additionally, the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center completed an extensive background check that included checking for criminal history, driving history, residential history and social media reaching back in time to when the candidate was 18 years of age. Additional inquiries were made to former employers, peers, subordinates and members of the Nashville, TN community.
The final steps included a medical, psychological and physical fitness test to ensure that a candidate has the mental, emotional and physical capacity to complete all the tasks associated with law enforcement and a written test on Nebraska state law.
Chief Leavitt received not only the administrative certification to be a police chief, but also received certification as a full law enforcement officer from the State of Nebraska.