 July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service? Bigger savings? That's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. The City of Pikeville Police Department is teaming up with the Criminal Justice Training Department this week for diminishable skills, training classes, and workshops. The classes are held in downtown Pikeville at the Hilton Garden Inn and the workshops will take place in various locations in Pikeville. What we want to do is keep names of police officers off the memorial walls so we provide them those diminishable skills, those skills that they lose the mindset a little bit, get them back to where they're more proficient. There are roughly 20 individuals participating in the event and those in attendance come from numerous police agencies around the region. Law enforcement officials in attendance will experience hands-on training in legal updates, first aid, defensive tactics, decision making, and proper stop etiquette. Workshops will include a driving track and firing range. And what we've went to is a regional training style so it frees up agencies for having to send people long distances, have hotels and meals at an expense. We bring our staff, we partner with Pikeville's staff here to provide the training. Officials say not only is the workshop important to those in law enforcement, but also for everyone in the community. It's very important for officers to keep up their firearm skills, their driving skills, their defensive tactics skills, their first aid skills. All those skills are important not to only keep themselves, but their brothers and uniforms safe, but the community members that they serve safe. The workshop will last until Friday evening. Reporting in Pikeville, I'm Shelby Still for EKB News.