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
