Maysville Police Department

The Maysville Police Department was organized in the late 1800’s with the first executive officer being a town Marshall who was elected. With the advent of state laws regulating Police service, Maysville formed a professional Police Department. Today’s Police Department has an authorized strength of thirty, with twenty-four sworn officers. There are six civilian employees serving in records management, the information center, and administrative support roles.

Each Maysville Police Officer is required to successfully complete 16 weeks of Police Basic Training conducted at the Kentucky Criminal Justice Training facility in Richmond, Kentucky. In addition, each sworn officer is required to successfully complete no less than 40 hours of annual in-service training as approved by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.

The Maysville Police Department is a full service police organization committed to providing help oriented police services to the Maysville community. Our challenge is to correctly identify problems, set priorities, and work in harmony with the community to keep Maysville a safe place to live.

As an accredited police agency, the Maysville Police Department is one of 60 police agencies in Kentucky that is accredited through the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police Accreditation Program. To be an accredited agency, a police department must meet 140 standard in such areas as policy and procedure, training and equipment.

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF
The Maysville Police Department consists of twenty-four sworn officers and six civilian employees dedicated to serving our community. We believe in, and conduct ourselves according to the philosophy of community oriented policing. We conduct a number of programs to help further that philosophy. In addition to established programs, we provide speakers to civic groups, churches, schools, etc. If we can be of any assistance, please contact us.