Bluffton council approved the hiring a Lesley Ducat as Bluffton’s newest full-time police office. Action was on Monday.

Ducat, of McComb, is a 2017 Siena Heights University graduate where she obtained a bachelor of arts with a criminal justice major. She also holds an associate’s of arts degree from Owens Community College with a major in criminal justice.

She interned with the McComb Police Department and has volunteered with several non-profit organizations including Share the Warmth, Habitat for Humanity, Cherry Street Mission and Ronald McDonald House.

She will join the Bluffton department on Aug. 1. Her rate of pay is $16 an hour.