Central Kentucky Area Drug Task Force

Last Updated on Monday, 14 September 2009 02:24

The mission of the Central Ky Area Drug Task Force is to be committed to the suppression of illegal drugs and narcotics. To measurably reduce and disrupt the importation, distribution, and clandestine manufacturing of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs in the Central Kentucky Area by actively pursuing those groups or individuals involved. To reduce the impact of illegal drugs and related violent criminal activity which address the need to increase the safety of Kentucky’s citizens.

The Central Ky Area Drug Task Force supports the Kentucky’s Office of Drug Control Policy’s strategy of reducing drug use in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. To support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through sharing resources, education, information sharing and working cooperatively to identify, arrest, and prosecute key members of illegal drug trafficking organizations as well as related money laundering operations.

Although we recognize that total elimination of drug law violations and their satellite crimes of violence, theft, robbery and fraud are unlikely; it must remain our number one goal. Drug crimes are both a cause and an effect, which make them difficult to combat. While we ask our communities to be patient, persistent and dedicated to our goal, we must act swiftly and prudently in the public interest.

Our job is to protect the safety, dignity and property of our citizens. We must gain and maintain public trust. We must act when called upon. We must put personal interests aside for the betterment of the community as a whole. Above all else, we must wisely use the tools that our community has provided.