YCSO lieutenant graduates from Southern Police Institute in Kentucky
Dillon Fuhrman
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KYMA, KECY) – The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) says Lt. Samuel Pavlak graduated from “the 153rd Session of the Southern Police Institute’s Administrative Officers Course” Sunday.
YCSO says Lt. Pavlak joined 41 other law enforcement officers from agencies across the country in Louisville, Kentucky “for a 12-week leadership development program.”
The institute, according to YCSO, “is an integral part of the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville” which aims to “develop informed, effective, ethical and competent law enforcement managers who are capable of assuming positions of leadership in their respective agencies.”
Pavlak joined YCSO in October of 2002 as a Detention Officer before being promoted to Lieutenant in July of 2019.
Currently, Pavlak is serving as the Commander of the Criminal Investigations Bureau and Yuma County Narcotics Task Force, which he was assigned in January of 2023.
To learn more about Pavlak, read the press release below.
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