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RCSO RECEIVES FEDERAL GRANT MONEY FOR NEW OFFICERS

 

Russell County Sheriff's Department, and 18 other Kentucky police and sheriff’s departments were among dozens nationwide to receive part of more than $400 million in federal money Tuesday to pay for police officers on the street.

 

The Department of Justice dispurses the funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). 

 

Russell County Sheriff's Office will receive just over $144,000 for new personnel.

 

Sheriff Derek Polston says...This Money will now allow us to Hire 2 additional Deputies and place them at the Salem Elementary School and Russell Springs Elementary. When we reapply next year I will put a grant in for Jamestown Elementary School as well. I want to Thank Susan Melton for all the hard work she did for writing the Grant, Superintendant Michael Ford and the Russell County School Board, Russell County Fiscal Court, my office Staff and Deputies for everything they do as well. 

 

Funding through this program had been on hold since the spring of 2018 due to a nationwide injunction that was lifted earlier this year.

 

The COPS Office received nearly 1,100 applications requesting more than 4,000 law enforcement positions.

 

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