diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/classifiers.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/classifiers.py
index dd97193d888..2e9112ddada 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/classifiers.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/classifiers.py
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ class ColumnClassifier(ABC, Generic[T]):
         """
 
 
-# Implementations
-
-
 @final
 class HeuristicPIIClassifier(ColumnClassifier[PIITag]):
     """
diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/presidio_utils.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/presidio_utils.py
index cfb7f3eeb43..daf587f8522 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/presidio_utils.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/algorithms/presidio_utils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Utilities for working with the Presidio Library.
 """
 import inspect
 import logging
-from typing import Iterable, Optional, Type
+from typing import Iterable, Type, Union
 
 import spacy
 from presidio_analyzer import (
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from presidio_analyzer.nlp_engine import SpacyNlpEngine
 from spacy.cli.download import download  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownVariableType]
 
 from metadata.pii.constants import PRESIDIO_LOGGER, SPACY_EN_MODEL, SUPPORTED_LANG
-from metadata.utils.logger import METADATA_LOGGER, pii_logger
+from metadata.utils.logger import pii_logger
 
 logger = pii_logger()
 
@@ -64,17 +64,10 @@ def build_analyzer_engine(
     return analyzer_engine
 
 
-def set_presidio_logger_level(log_level: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
+def set_presidio_logger_level(log_level: Union[int, str] = logging.ERROR) -> None:
     """
     Set the presidio logger to talk less about internal entities unless we are debugging.
     """
-    if log_level is None:
-        log_level = (
-            logging.INFO
-            if logging.getLogger(METADATA_LOGGER).level == logging.DEBUG
-            else logging.ERROR
-        )
-
     logging.getLogger(PRESIDIO_LOGGER).setLevel(log_level)
 
 
@@ -87,7 +80,6 @@ def _load_spacy_model(model_name: str) -> None:
     try:
         _ = spacy.load(model_name)
     except OSError:
-
         logger.warning(f"Downloading {model_name} language model for the spaCy")
         download(model_name)
         _ = spacy.load(model_name)
diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/scanners/ner_scanner.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/scanners/ner_scanner.py
index 58e0ef84b32..da189cbae50 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/scanners/ner_scanner.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/pii/scanners/ner_scanner.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict
 
 from metadata.generated.schema.entity.classification.tag import Tag
+from metadata.pii.algorithms.presidio_utils import _load_spacy_model
 from metadata.pii.constants import PII, SPACY_EN_MODEL
 from metadata.pii.models import TagAndConfidence
 from metadata.pii.ner import NEREntity
@@ -56,18 +57,10 @@ class NERScanner(BaseScanner):
     """Based on https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/"""
 
     def __init__(self):
-        import spacy
         from presidio_analyzer import AnalyzerEngine
         from presidio_analyzer.nlp_engine.spacy_nlp_engine import SpacyNlpEngine
 
-        try:
-            spacy.load(SPACY_EN_MODEL)
-        except OSError:
-            logger.warning("Downloading en_core_web_md language model for the spaCy")
-            from spacy.cli import download
-
-            download(SPACY_EN_MODEL)
-            spacy.load(SPACY_EN_MODEL)
+        _load_spacy_model(SPACY_EN_MODEL)
 
         nlp_engine_model = NLPEngineModel(
             lang_code=SUPPORTED_LANG, model_name=SPACY_EN_MODEL