Seven Basic Law Enforcement recruits will graduate from Georgia Northwestern Technical College on Thursday. The ceremony will be held in the Conference Center on GNTC’s Gordon County Campus at 11 a.m.
The guest speaker at the ceremony will be Greg Ramey, special agent in charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Region 1 Calhoun Field Office.
Special Agent Ramey began his career with the GBI in the Region 6 Milledgeville Office from 1985 to 1989 and the Region 1 Calhoun Office from 1989 to 2001.
He was also the regional narcotics specialist from 1991 to 1997 and was the Region 1 child abuse specialist from 1997 to 2002.
In 2002, he was the case agent for the Tri State Crematory Investigation and later that year he was promoted to the rank of assistant special agent in charge and transferred to the Haralson Paulding Drug Task Force.
Special Agent Ramey transferred to the Region 1 Calhoun Office in 2009 as the assistant special agent in charge and was promoted to special agent in charge of the Canton Regional Drug Enforcement Office in 2012. He returned to the Region 1 Office as special agent in charge in 2013.
The ceremony will honor a graduate with an award for academic distinction and the “Top Gun” award for excellence in marksmanship.
Graduates of GNTC’s Basic Law Enforcement Training Class #201502 are Bruce W. Brott, II, William M. Guthridge, Matthew A. Hicks, Mitchell B. Massingill, Anthony M. Owens, David M. Rayborn, and Tyler J. Ware.