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Police Department
Keith Middleton, Chief
606-365-4525

The Stanford Police Department is a nine officer force that meets or exceeds the requirements of the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice standards. This force provides police protection within the city limits of Stanford 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 each officer drives his or her 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 cruisers being equipped with such features as radar, video cameras, on-board computers, assault weapons, prisoner cages and other crime fighting devices.

The deparment is available with officers on patrol twenty-four hours per day seven days per week (24/7). These 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 Crime Laboratory.