Kentucky

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Kentucky's body of laws, known as the Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS), were enacted in 1942 to better organize and clarify the whole of Kentucky law.^[1] The statutes are enforced by local police, sheriffs, constables, deputy sheriffs and deputy constables. Unless they have completed a police academy elsewhere, these officers are required to complete training at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training Center on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University.^[2] Additionally, in 1948, the Kentucky General Assembly established the Kentucky State Police, making it the 38^th state to create a force whose jurisdiction extends throughout the given state.^[3]

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