Kentucky State Police

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The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is the full service state police agency for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The department was founded in 1948 and replaced the Kentucky Highway Patrol. The department's officers are called troopers.

1 History
2 Posts
3 In popular culture
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

In 1948, the Kentucky General Assembly enacted the State Police Act, creating the Kentucky State Police force, and making it the 38^th 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. ^[1] Guthrie F. Crowe served as the force's first commissioner.^[2]

[edit] Posts

The Kentucky State Police operate from 16 regional posts:^[3]

Post 1: Mayfield
Post 2: Nortonville
Post 3: Bowling Green
Post 4: Elizabethtown
Post 5: Campbellsburg
Post 6: Dry Ridge
Post 7: Richmond
Post 8: Morehead

Post 9: Pikeville
Post 10: Harlan
Post 11: London
Post 12: Frankfort
Post 13: Hazard
Post 14: Ashland
Post 15: Columbia
Post 16: Henderson

In addition, the KSP operates the state's system of regional crime labs. The department's headquarters and training academy are located in Frankfort. The department also operates Trooper Island Boys' Camp, a juvenile crime prevention program at Dale Hollow Lake State Park.^[2]

[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 Timeline-191 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.

[edit] See also

List of law enforcement agencies in Kentucky

[edit] References

^ History of the Kentucky State Police. Kentucky State Police. Retrieved on February 1, 2007.
^ ^a ^b (1992) "Kentucky State Police", in Kleber, John E.: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813117720.
^ Kentucky State Police Posts. Kentucky State Police. Retrieved on February 1, 2007.

"Kentucky State Police Posts" Kentucky State Police, April 28, 2006, retrieved August 25, 2006

[edit] External links

Official Website for the Kentucky State Police

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