| Hustonville Police Department
Fred McCoy, Chief
P.O. Box 41
Hustonville, Kentucky 40437
(606) 346-2323 Office
(606) 346-2198 Home
(606) 346-4312 Fax
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The Hustonville Police Department meets or exceeds the requirements of the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice standards. This force provides police protection within the city limits of Hustonville and also provides assistance to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department and the Kentucky State Police, as needed. Every officer has completed the Department of Criminal Justice Police Academy at Eastern Kentucky University.
The department utilized the Home Fleet Program, where the officer drives his cruiser home. This increases the visibility of the city's police fleet and acts to deter the criminal. The fleet is a modern pursuit fleet, with the cruiser equipped with such features as radar, video cameras, assault weapons, prisoner cages and other crime fighting devices.
The deparment is available with an officer on call twenty-four hours per day seven days per week (24/7). The officers are dispatched via a state-of-the-art enhanced 911 communication center, that is also manned 24/7.
The department has a full time criminal investigative staff, trained and equipped for the pursuit and conviction of the criminal. This staff is equipped with the latest digital computer equipment for the gathering and processing of crime scene evidence and has full access to the Kentucky State P olice Crime Labor
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What Are Policemen Made Of?
By Paul Harvey
Don't credit me with the mongrel prose: it has many parents-at least 420,000 of them: Policemen.
A Policeman is a composite of what all men are, mingling of a saint and sinner, dust and deity.
Gulled statistics wave the fan over the stinkers, underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are "new". What they really mean is that they are exceptional, unusual, not commonplace.
Buried under the frost is the fact: Less than one-half of one percent of policemen misfit the uniform. That's a better average than you'd find among clergy!
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is "sir" to his face and "fuzz" to his back
He must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that each will think he won.
But...If the policeman is neat, he's conceited; if he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's flirting;if not, he's a grouch.
He must make an instant decision which can require months for a Judge, Lawyer and Jury to make.
But...If he hurries, he's careless; if he's deliberate, he's lazy. He must be first to an accident and infallible with his diagnosis. He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints and, above all, be sure the victim goes home without a limp. Or expect to be sued.
The police officer must know every gun, draw on the run, and hit where it doesn't hurt.He must be able to whip two men twice his size and half his age without damaging his uniform and without being "brutal". If you hit him, he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully.
A policeman must know everything-and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
A policeman must, from a single strand of hair, be able to describe the crime, the weapon and the criminal- and tell you where the criminal is hiding.
But...If he catches the criminal, he's lucky; if he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted, he has political pull; if he doesn't, he's a dullard. The policeman must chase a bum lead to a dead-end, stake out ten nights to tag one witness who saw it happen-but refused to remember.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman.
And, of course, he'd have to be genius....For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary |
