www.lexipol.com 844-312-9500 THE CHALLENGE After nearly 30 years with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO), Steve Kempker began his term as sheriff with an ambitious goal: revamp all the agency’s road patrol, law enforcement and corrections policies and procedures. “When I started back in 1989, our policies were in a one-inch three-ring binder; by the time I was elected sheriff, they had morphed into a four-inch D-ring binder,” Sheriff Kempker says. “Years ago, we had good policy and procedure in place. But over time we created policies as a result of specific incidents, and we found we had inconsistent, outdated and sometimes duplicative policies.” Eager to get started on his goal, he set up two policy committees, one for the law enforcement side and one for the

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