Boone County Sheriff’s Office opens new training center

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO) — The Boone County Sheriff’s Office welcomed in its brand-new training center on September 21st.

It will be called the Duane E Wirth Training Center and it honors Wirth’s 36 years of commitment to the community.

The center consists of a classroom, fitness center, control tactics room, conference room and accidental reconstruction office. The sheriff said this will help in many ways.

“In today’s world in our profession in recruitment and retention of officers is so important and we feel this facility will assist in recruiting fine individuals to join the Boone County Sheriff’s Department and will help us to continue to retain those officers once we get them hired and trained,” said Boone County Sheriff Scott Yunk.

The training center is located on McKinley Avenue in Belvidere.

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