Pastor Mike asked Sheriff Troy Berry the following questions:

- What type of training are you providing to your officers to better assist them with dealing with the public, especially people of color?

- When these incidents occur, what practices are put in place within the police force to ensure officers receive recurrent training to prevent it?

- When was the last race relations training?

- What sped training do our officers have when they go out on calls?

- What is the training say about whistleblowers, do cops feel comfortable reporting other cops for excessive force?

- Do officers have to take part in de-escalation training?

- Can training take place to help citizens understand exactly what should be done when engaged by an officer? This should include role playing.

- To Troy Berry:
What accountability system and/or training is in place so black people are not treated by the police like what happened in Minnesota?

- Are potential police candidates and current police officers screened to implicit bias? What is the best way to peacefully protest while not allowing the seriousness of this matter to be diminished? People are DYING and we need a solution.

- Are body cameras currently being utilized by the Charles County Sheriff Department? If so, what is the policy regarding initiating (i.e. once call received)? If not, why not? If not, when?

- Do officers wear body cameras? If so, are they required to be turned on immediately when officers respond to a police call?

- Has there been discussions/training within the department regarding racial injustice and how they can do their part in ensuring proper handling of all situations?

- Are there training given to officers to prevent murders from happening like what resulted from George Floyd?

-With such a high percentage of white sheriff officers in an increasingly growing African American community, what measures or coaching is your organization undergoing to prevent racial profiling, abuse to economically challenged youth and the risk of taking lives?

- If you could design the training requirements for officers what would it look like? Would there be continued training? Should officers need longer training to acclimate to the mental difficulty of maintaining empathy?

- How are the police trained so that they have no bias and can defuse any tension? I feel that not all officers are unbiased and some display hostility in the dmv. I speak from observation and from 1 experience with a friend.