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DeSilva gains award for training Ashland police officer Teri DeSilva recently received the Excellence in Training award in the area of Defensive Skills Training from the Oregon State Department of Public Safety and Training. The award acknowledges DeSilva's significant contribution to the training of members of Oregon's public safety community. The training program spans the entire field of public safety, including police, fire, corrections, parole and probation, 911 telecommunications, private security and polygraph examination. DeSilva trains police officers, corrections officers and probation and parole officers in defensive tactics essential to their jobs such as survival skills, scenario based training, baton, correct use of pepper spray and more. DeSilva has been an instructor for DPSST for four years and teaches on her own time two weekends per month. She is the only female awards recipient and the first from the APD. LINKS: DAILY TIDINGS: Main | News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Opinion | Columnists | AP News | Subscribe | Archives | Weather | Classifieds | Contact Us | Privacy REVELS: Main | Calendar | Dining | Movies | T.V. OTHER: Road Cams Copyright 2003 Ashland Daily Tidings 541.482.3456. 1661 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520. Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. - Advertisers -