INDIANAPOLIS – First Sergeant Todd Harless has announced his retirement from the Indiana State Police, marking the end of a 34-year law enforcement career.
First Sergeant Todd Harless, a native of Mansfield, Ohio, is a 1984 graduate of Lucas High School located in Lucas, Ohio. Harless received an ROTC Scholarship to Wentworth Military Academy and Junior College located in Lexington, Missouri, in 1984, and graduated as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1986. From there, he traveled to Defiance, Ohio, where he enrolled and graduated from Defiance College in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications Arts.
Harless began his law enforcement career in 1991 after being accepted into the 49th Indiana State Police Recruit Academy in July of that year. On November 24, 1991, he graduated with forty-five other cadets and was appointed as a Trooper and assigned to the Indiana State Police Post in Lowell. There he served the citizens of Porter and LaPorte Counties for four years.
During Harless’s tour of duty at the Lowell Post, he became a member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT) and a Field Training Officer (FTO). He was also a staff member for two Lions Law Camps at Taylor University. He also volunteered and was accepted as a counselor for the 51st and 52nd Recruit Academy Classes…