Several law enforcement officials are working to create a local narcotics task force in Christian County. The area is now part of the 11-county Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force but Commonwealth Lynn Pryor said there is need for a smaller unit in the high-crime area.
“When you take on a number of counties it, they’re spread pretty thin. I’m just going to say that,” she said. “And so we felt like of all the counties in Kentucky that Christian County was justified in having their own county-wide unit.”
Pryor added that there was a once similar unit that partnered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and it was successful.
“It was not really a formalizes task force,” she said. “It was one that kind of disbanded for various reasons. We had an ATF officer that was assigned to it that was relocated to another region, one of our city police officer that was hired by the ATF and one of our sheriff’s office detective was then hired by the state police.”
Pryor has approached several city councils and commissions about funding, and they are currently work on their budgets for next year. But she says the Hopkinsville Police Department has designated some of their officers for the task force and office space.
