According to Chief Tyler Thomas, the Cadiz Police Department found itself rather busy for the month of August.
Officers investigated 32 cases, made nine arrests and responded to 656 calls for service — more than 20 per day.
Of the 60 traffic stops made, 38 citations were issued, and 25 alarm calls also required units deployed.
Thankfully, Thomas said of the nine collisions worked, none of them involved any serious injury.
Also, it was in August where the CPD was issued a training simulator by the Kentucky League of Cities.
Thomas noted this device allowed officers to practice their response to resistance of many different types, in which incidences and calls for service can sometimes involve abnormal conditions not similar to regular patrol duties.
The simulator, Thomas added, keeps the department up-to-date on case law, as well as changes in response to certain situations like persons of diminished capacity, and it offers a problem-solving tool in a safe, sterile environment — without risk of injury or harm in a firearms-related training setting.
At present, the CPD has two instructors who annually train the entire department on such matters.
Of the nine collisions, three of them occurred along US 68/80, including one near the I-24 junction.
Monthly reports are delivered at Cadiz City Council, which next meets Tuesday, October 1.
