Hopkinsville City Council to Name New Police Chief

WKMS | By Whitney Jones

Published January 22, 2015 at 12:41 PM CST

The Hopkinsville City Council is set to name Clayton Sumner as its next police chief in a special called meeting tonight.

Sumner has served as interim police chief since Guy Howie retired last summer.

He has been with Hopkinsville Police Department since 2002 and was promoted to Deputy Chief in May 2014.

Sumner has worked as a patrolman with the gang unit and trained as a hostage negotiator. He has also been a part of the detective division in addition to supervising the patrol division after being promoted to a lieutenant in 2010. He became a captain in 2012.

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Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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