Morrow County gets new wildlife officer

Vin­cent Untied, 23, of Granville, Ohio will be assigned as a new state wildlife offi­cer in Mor­row County.

Offi­cer Untied is one of 11 new wildlife offi­cer cadets who have been under­go­ing exten­sive train­ing and were sworn in as com­mis­sioned state wildlife offi­cers dur­ing cer­e­monies June 29 in Colum­bus. He began his new duties the fol­low­ing day.

Fol­low­ing com­ple­tion of the Ohio Peace Offi­cer Basic Train­ing course May 4, the cadets had eight weeks of spe­cial­ized train­ing by the Divi­sion of Wildlife. In addi­tion to wildlife law enforce­ment pro­ce­dures and agency poli­cies, the cadets received train­ing in areas of wildlife and fish man­age­ment, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, ATV and water­craft oper­a­tion, hunter safety, and advanced firearms and self-defense topics.

As a state wildlife offi­cer, Untied will have statewide juris­dic­tion to enforce wildlife reg­u­la­tions, inves­ti­gate alle­ga­tions of water­way pol­lu­tion, pro­tect state prop­erty, and make arrests. He will also con­duct edu­ca­tional pro­grams, per­form fish and wildlife man­age­ment duties, and advise landown­ers on deal­ing with wildlife.

Wildlife offi­cers serve an impor­tant role as a point of con­tact with law enforce­ment and other agen­cies on top­ics of mutual inter­est, pro­vid­ing assis­tance and expertise.

“I’m excited to have been assigned to Mor­row County, I look for­ward to work­ing with its res­i­dents and help­ing where pos­si­ble,” said Untied.

Untied is a 2007 grad­u­ate of Granville High School in Lick­ing County. In 2011, he received a bach­e­lor of sci­ence degree in wildlife and fish­eries man­age­ment from West Vir­ginia University.

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