(5-28-25) Minster Police Sgt. Bryan Koesters recently graduated from the Law Enforcement Foundation’s Supervisor Training and Education Program (STEP) on May 14, 2025. Sgt. Koesters was one of 41 students attending the thirty-third session of the program.



STEP is designed to develop newly promoted officers, or about-to-be promoted officers, into highly effective first-line supervisors with the competency skills necessary to lead and supervise in a high-performance organization. The current STEP curriculum is comprised of twenty-one modules including the transition to supervisor, leadership strategies, creating an ethical environment, developing subordinates, mentoring, dealing with problematic employees, effective listening and speaking, improved written communication, administrative skills, performance management, conflict management, critical incident management through tabletop exercise, supervisory response to a line of duty shooting and patrol operations, supervisory response to vehicle and foot pursuits, supervisory response to domestic violence calls, media relations, risk management, practical case studies, team presentations, panel presentations on contemporary issues, and a First-Line Supervisor 360 assessment. Since its beginning in 2004, 1,019 Ohio law enforcement first-line supervisors have attended STEP.

The Law Enforcement Foundation, in cooperation with the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police, sponsors the Supervisor Training and Education Program. The Law Enforcement Foundation exists to develop working partnerships for the common concerns of business and police executives to foster the values of good citizenship; enhance the prospects of secure communities and brighten the future through constructive social change within each Ohio community. STEP was developed to provide law enforcement first-line supervisors with innovative and in-depth educational opportunities.