KSP Post 1 Dispatch Honored for Service

The Kentucky State Police Post 1 communications center was recognized as the 2021 Public Safety Answering Point of the year for the state of Kentucky.

The 911 center at Post 1 in Hickory serves as the PSAP for agencies in Ballard, Graves, Hickman, and Lyon Counties. Aside from dispatching for the Kentucky State Police, Post 1 is the primary dispatch center for all emergency services in Graves and Lyon Counties including their police departments. In 2020 the 911 center in Hickory answered nearly 26,000 9-1-1 calls and 75,000 non-emergency calls in addition to dispatching and receiving hundreds of thousands of radio transmissions.

The dispatch center at Post 1 served as the redundancy for other dispatch centers and emergency services when the Christmas Day 2020 bombing in downtown Nashville knocked out telecommunication services to a large portion of the southeast and most of Kentucky.

Among the telecommunicators honored at Post 1 was former WPKY news reporter Audrey Lamb who joined their dispatch team last year.

The Post 1 communications team includes:

Heather Farmer-Communications Supervisor

Tracy Lynch- Communications Shift Supervisor

Brandon Crews- Communications Shift Supervisor

Jerry Beasley

Ginger Hunt

Debbie Fennel

Tambra Sheridan

Kim Newsome

Ashley Gore

Alaina Ramage

Amanda Coles

Bryan Mack

Alisha Cooper

Chad Spain

Larry Fraser

Phillip Madison

Samantha Wilson

Audrey Lamb

Paige Holt

Emily Wallace

Cathy Meade

Gary Fraser

Cammie Beasley

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