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In 1948, the Kentucky General Assembly enacted the State Police Act, creating the Kentucky State Police and making Kentucky 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 modeled after the Pennsylvania State Police.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,942. [1] Its county seat is Prestonsburg. [2] The county, founded in 1800, is named for Colonel John Floyd (1750–1783). [3] [4]
Prestonsburg is a small home rule-class city [6] in and the county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. [7] It is in the eastern part of the state in the valley of the Big Sandy River . The population was 3,255 at the time of the 2010 census , [ 8 ] down from 3,612 at the 2000 census.
Two police officers – Floyd County sheriff's deputy William Petry, who was also a former SRO at Floyd County Schools, and Prestonsburg Police Department Captain Ralph Frasure – died at the scene. A third officer also with the Prestonsburg Police Department, Jacob R. Chaffins, died in the hospital on July 1, the day after the shooting.
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Indiana Troopers Association (2009), Indiana State Police 75th Anniversary Historical Book, Evansville, Ind.: M.T. Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN 978-1-934729-22-9, OCLC 651915614 Olsen, Marilyn B. (2001), Gangsters, Gunfire and Political Intrigue: The Story of the Indiana State Police , Indianapolis: .38 Special Press, ISBN 978-0-967574-93-6 ...
Prestonsburg, Kentucky (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Cities in Floyd County, Kentucky" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.