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25 Year Service Award Recipient
Congratulations to Deputy Alex Montgomery for 25 years of dedicated service to LPSO and the Citizens of Lafayette Parish.

Deputy Montgomery is a detective within Criminal Investigation Division.

Citizen Praises Sheriff's Innovative Programs

Dear Sheriff Neustrom:

Just so you know that I do write complimentary letters in addition to those that criticize, please accept my praise for some of your innovative programs that have been recently highlighted in the media. The programs I speak of are the direct supervision of prisoners approach; the off-site telecommunication visitation for families of prisoners; the call program for the elderly; and the day reporting programs for some offenders. All of these programs show your very humanistic approach to corrections and the general human condition. You are a different kind of sheriff from the standard old Louisiana model, and it has taken some adjustment by the jaded downtown crowd (myself included) to see the wisdom of your ways. Anyway, thank you for your innovative programs, and I am always available with an opinion. I don't lack opinions.

With kind regards, I remain Very truly yours, Albert M. Karre', Jr.

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Sheriff Honors 1st Career Academy Graduates

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Sheriff Michael W. Neustrom, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, and the Lafayette Parish School Board honored graduates of the first Sheriff’s Career Academy at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 07, 2002. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office is proud to partner with the Lafayette Parish School Board to conduct the first Law Enforcement Career Academy in the State of Louisiana. Kourtney Stroud of Acadiana High, Kristopher Andrus and Kyle Landor of Carencro High, Russell Bertrand, Justin Dean, and Shane Hebert of Comeaux High, Charell Jackson and Dale Thomas of Lafayette High, and Kathleen Delhom of Northside High School were honored for completing the required coursework and will receive one high school credit. Students attended class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the Sheriff’s Community Training Center and received instruction from various law enforcement on subjects that included: History of Law Enforcement; Legal Terms and Concepts; Criminal Code; Police Ethics; First Aid and CPR, Media and the Police; Crime Prevention; Victim Rights; Elderly Crime Victims; Use of Force; Patrol Methods; Interview and Interrogation; Police Survival; Firearms; Crime Scene Investigation; Rules of Evidence; Dynamics of Domestic Violence, Police Report Writing; and Courtroom Testimony. Coursework also required students to ride-along with Patrol Deputies and observe the Sheriff’s Office Communications Center along with tours of the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, AFIS and Angola State Penitentiary.

Donna Delahoussaye
Media Relations/Projects Coordinator
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
337-236-5814/337-232-9211