Air Force vet offered Huntingburg police officer position

The City of Huntingburg made a conditional offer of employment with the police department to a 24-year-old Air Force veteran.

Tyler Stivers accepted the offer to join the Huntingburg Police Department and he will likely be sworn in as the department’s 12th officer at the next public works meeting.

Stivers is a graduate of Loogootee High School and has family in southwest Indiana, but is coming from Maryland where he has been in the Air Force for the last six and a half years.

Stivers is married with one child and is looking forward to moving to Huntingburg and taking his place in the department.

Huntingburg Police Chief Art Parks says Stivers comes well-qualified. “We feel good about him,” he said. “He has passed all of our tests we have given him and already passed the exit standards of the academy.”

Parks said that this will give him 12 full-time officers in his department along with six reserves.

“I look forward to working in the town and getting to know everyone,” Stivers said. “I definitely enjoy the sense of community here in Huntingburg.”

He told the board that Stivers has to go through academy training beginning in March for 15 weeks.