Kentucky State Police
| Kentucky State Police | |
| Abbreviation | KSP |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1948 |
| Preceding agency | Kentucky Highway Patrol |
| Employees | 1,713 (as of 2004)[1] |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA |
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| Kentucky State Police Post map | |
| Size | 40,434 square miles (104,720 km2) |
| Population | 4,241,474 (2007 est.)[2] |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Troopers | 936 (as of 2004)[1] |
| Civilians | 777 (as of 2004)[1] |
| Agency executive | Colonel Rodney Brewer, Commissioner |
| Parent agency | Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet |
| Special Units | Special Operations West and East Drug Enforcement Cannabis Suppression Aircraft Support Vehicle Investigations Commercial Vehicle Enforcement |
| Facilities | |
| Posts | 16 |
| Website | |
| http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/ | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is a department of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. The department was founded in 1948 and replaced the Kentucky Highway Patrol. The department's officers are called troopers and its nickname is The Thin Gray Line.[3]
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[edit] History
In 1948, the Kentucky General Assembly enacted the State Police Act, creating the Kentucky State Police force, and making it the 38th state to create a force whose jurisdiction extends throughout the given state. The act was signed July 1 of that year by Governor Earle C. Clements. The force was an outgrowth of the Kentucky Highway Patrol, and inherited the equipment and officers from that organization.[4] Guthrie F. Crowe served as the force's first commissioner.[5]
[edit] Posts
The Kentucky State Police operate from 16 regional posts:[6]
West Troop
- Post 1: Mayfield
- Post 2: Madisonville
- Post 3: Bowling Green
- Post 4: Elizabethtown
- Post 5: Campbellsburg
- Post 12: Frankfort
- Post 15: Columbia
- Post 16: Henderson
East Troop
- Post 6: Dry Ridge
- Post 7: Richmond
- Post 8: Morehead
- Post 9: Pikeville
- Post 10: Harlan
- Post 11: London
- Post 13: Hazard
- Post 14: Ashland
In addition, the Special Enforcement Troop includes the following branches:
- Cannabis Suppression
- West Drug Enforcement
- East Drug Enforcement
- Aircraft Support
- Vehicle Investigations
- Special Operations
[edit] Organization
[edit] Overview
The department's headquarters and training academy are located in Frankfort. Recruits undergo a 23 week, paramilitary-style training program. After graduation, probationary troopers must complete field training under the supervision of a training trooper. Rather than trooper basic training in Frankfort, sworn Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officers undergo an 18 week basic training program at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training Center at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky (the same basic training that municipal police officers and sheriff's deputies undergo), followed by specialized training on commercial vehicle enforcement.
The KSP operates the state's system of regional crime labs and is responsible for protecting the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of the Kentucky General Assembly and state property, including the Kentucky State Capitol Complex.[3]
On July 14, 2008, the Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement department, which is responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement, became an operational division of the KSP.[7]
The department also operates Trooper Island Camp, a juvenile crime prevention program at Dale Hollow Lake State Park.[5]
[edit] Structure
- Commissioner of the State Police
- Executive Security Branch
- Legal Office
- Administration Division
- Programs
- Drivers Testing Branch
- Facilities Security Branch
- Financial and Grant Management Branch
- Highway Safety Branch
- Inspections and Evaluation Section
- Legislative Security Branch
- Media Relations Branch
- Strategic Planning Branch
- Internal Operations
- Academy Branch
- Human Resources Branch
- Internal Affairs Branch
- Properties Management and Supply Branch
- Recruitment Branch
- Programs
- Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division
- West Troop
- Region 1
- Region 2
- Region 3
- East Troop
- Region 4
- Region 5
- Region 6
- West Troop
- Operations Division
- West Troop
- Post 1
- Post 2
- Post 3
- Post 4
- Post 5
- Post 12
- Post 15
- Post 16
- East Troop
- Post 6
- Post 7
- Post 8
- Post 9
- Post 10
- Post 11
- Post 13
- Post 14
- Special Enforcement Troop
- Cannabis Suppression
- West Drug Enforcement
- East Drug Enforcement
- Aircraft Support
- Vehicle Investigations
- Special Operations
- West Troop
- Technical Services Division
- Forensic Division
- Central Laboratory – (Frankfort)
- Eastern Laboratory – (Ashland)
- Jefferson Laboratory – (Louisville)
- Northern Laboratory – (Cold Spring)
- Southeast Laboratory – (London)
- Western Laboratory – (Madisonville)
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Communications and Computer Technologies Branch
- Criminal Identification and Records Branch
- Headquarters Communications Branch
- Intelligence Branch
- Forensic Division
[edit] Demographics[8]
- Male: 97%
- Female: 3%
- White: 96%
- African-American/Black: 3%
- Asian: 1%
[edit] In popular culture
- The alternate-timeline historical fiction author Harry Turtledove has used a fictionalized Kentucky State Police as a plot device in his Southern Victory Series.
- The Kentucky State Police was featured throughout the 1998 movie U.S. Marshals which starred Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr. and Joe Pantoliano.
- The Kentucky State Police was featured as the agency conducting the investigation into the death of an EPA agent in the 1997 movie Fire Down Below starring Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Levon Helm.
- The Kentucky State Police are featured in the FX drama Justified. Peter Murnick plays Kentucky State Trooper Tom Bergen, who assists Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens throughout season 2.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c USDOJ Statistics
- ^ http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html 2007 Population Estimates
- ^ a b "History of the Kentucky State Police". Kentucky State Police. http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/history.htm. Retrieved July 19, 2007.
- ^ "History of the Kentucky State Police". Kentucky State Police. http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/history.htm. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
- ^ a b Kleber, John E., ed. (1992). "Kentucky State Police". The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0.
- ^ "Kentucky State Police Posts". Kentucky State Police. http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/post.htm. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
- ^ "Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement to become a division of KSP". Office of Communications of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. http://www.governor.ky.gov/pressrelease.htm?PostingGUID={D5D89AE0-8945-4CAD-A4D7-2B0D736673C3}. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/lemas00.pdf U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers
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