OAK HILL -- Police Chief Diane Young and her five officers were back on patrol mid-day Wednesday, one day after they received firearms certification from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, which stepped in and policed the community in the interim.
"A training problem was discovered by Chief (Diane) Young, which she then reported to FDLE and the Mayor," .Administrator/City Clerk, Virginia Haas said in a statement to the media earlier in the day.
Mayor Darla Lauer and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were notified by Young, who asked the Sheriff's Office to assist so that she and her officers could get the training certification and not jeopardize arrests.
The Sheriff's Office took over patrols 2 p.m. Tuesday and turned jurisdiction back overr to Oak Hill police, shortly after noon Wednesday, Haas said later in the afternoon in a brief interview with NSBNEWS.net.
Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said Sheriff Ben Johnson treated the situation as a mutual aid request and the city was not charged. Haas said the Oak Hill officers would not lose any pay.