Jail staffers learn new tactics

The Hill County Sheriff's Office plans to purchase an arsenal of nonlethal weapons to quell any potential disturbances at the Hill County Detention Center, and detention staffers received training this week from an elite jail riot team from Missoula.

Five members of the Disturbance Response Team for the Missoula County Detention Facility were in Havre to train Hill County detention officers in cell extraction techniques and demonstrate the use of a variety of nonlethal weapons.

Hill County Sheriff Greg Szudera said the Sheriff's Office had planned to purchase some of the weapons for a while, b...