Text Box: Two New Police Officers in Wilmore Chief Steve Boven has announced that the Wilmore Police Department (WPD) has recently hired two new experienced officers. James Sexton was hired on April 8 of this year. Prior to working for the WPD James was an officer with the Tompkinsville Police Department where he started in 2004. Before being a police officer he was a deputy jailer for Barren County Corrections. Sexton is a graduate of the police academy at the Department of Criminal Justice Training in Richmond, Kentucky. Officer Sexton served on active duty with the U.S. Navy from 1985 to 1991 and during some of that time was on board the U.S.S. Saratoga. He is presently on reserve status with the Navy. Officer Sexton is married and has one daughter. The most recent officer hired is Jeffrey Bol from the Lafayette, Indiana area. Officer Bol completed his academy training at the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Center near Indianapolis, Indiana. He has completed and is certified in the DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) and the Drug Testing. He has also attended Drug Recognition Expert School. Officer Bol is a DARE Officer and certified School Resource Officer and has also attended Jail Officer Training. Officer Bol worked as an officer in Indiana before coming to Wilmore. Officer Bol has been married for 17 years and has 3 sons. As a side note, Officer Bol has played professional basketball for five years in Argentina and in Australia. Since being in Kentucky, he is already becoming a Wildcat Fan (maybe). Please welcome these officers to Wilmore! Text Box: On Monday, August 7th Jessamine County Judge Executive Wm. Neal Cassity presented an award to Wilmore’s Police Chief, Stephen Boven at the Wilmore City Council Meeting. The award was in recognition of Chief Boven’s leadership and organization of the Jessamine County Chapter of Kentucky ASAP. Three years ago, Chief Boven was approached by Judge Cassity to establish and chair the local chapter of KYASAP. KYASAP is a statewide program that is based out of Frankfort which focuses on the prevention, treatment and education in regards to substance abuse. The Jessamine County ASAP Board has done a local assessment of the effects of substance abuse issues within this county and has created a Strategic Plan to address these issues. The Jessamine County ASAP Board was awarded a total of $50,000 from the state level to assist in resolving some of our local problems. This Board has issued funds and will be issuing more funds to several programs within Jessamine County, ranging from treatment programs, to exercises that promote substance abuse prevention. The Jessamine County ASAP Board meets several times a year to discuss ways to eliminate and prevent substance abuse within this community.