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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.
In response to this staffing crisis and continued pressure from correctional employees, the Kentucky Legislature held a special session and approved an immediate 13.1% salary increase for current security staff, moved non-security staff to 40 hour work weeks, and increased the starting salary for Correctional Officers from $23,346 to $30,000 ...
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.
More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall […] The post Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline ...
Kentucky State Police Commissioner Col. Philip Burnett Jr. speaks about operation United Front that targeted human trafficking that resulted in the rescue of 21 victims and the arrest of 41 ...
The Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet (JPSC) is an agency of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky that is responsible for providing law enforcement, criminal justice and correctional services to the citizens of Kentucky.
Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
The Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA), formerly known as The Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS), [1] is the administrator of defined-benefit pension and insurance plans for most of Kentucky's state and county employees and retirees.