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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents.
Augusta is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 9,256. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is located east of Wichita along U.S. Route 54 / 400 highway .
Code enforcement, sometimes encompassing law enforcement, is the act of enforcing a set of rules, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and ensuring observance of a system of norms or customs. [1] An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to behave in a ...
Capital City High School, 2731 S.W. East Circle S. Drive. Flick's First vending machine at Schendel Lawn, 4100 S.W. 40th St. Hazel Hill Chocolate Traditions, 724 S. Kansas Ave.
Dodge City: 1867: From unorganized area: James H. Ford, Union general in the Civil War who mainly fought in Kansas and Missouri: FO 33,980: 1,099 sq mi (2,846 km 2) Franklin County: 059: Ottawa: 1855: One of the original 36 counties: Benjamin Franklin, orator, writer, scholar, and founding father of the U.S. FR 26,125: 574 sq mi (1,487 km 2 ...
Augusta Township covers an area of 32.53 square miles (84.3 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Augusta. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Calvary. It also contains a cemetery called Augusta Township Cemetery (Kuster). The streams of Elm Creek and Whitewater River run through this township.
The Law Enforcement Torch Run began in 1981 by Chief LaMunyon in the Wichita Police Department and in 1983 the International Association of Chiefs of Police officially adopted the Torch Run. Many of the original participants in the Torch Run were later inducted as Hall of Fame members by Special Olympics.
During the 1960s the LPD was involved with anti-war protests due to the Vietnam War with US involvement and at some points all law enforcement within Douglas County, Kansas, cooperated to keep the peace. [2] Following the modernization of law enforcement in the early 1990s, the LPD adopted the SIG Sauer P226 as the sidearm.