POLICE CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM
The Jeffersontown Police Chaplin is on-call 24-hours a day-7 days a week, and will respond to a variety of calls for assistance as needed. Since the inception of the Chaplaincy Program in November 1975, Reverend Tom Dillard has served as the Jeffersontown Police Chaplain. In addition to his duties with the police department, Chaplain Dillard is also the full-time minister of the Hopewell Presbyterian Church and Fire Chaplain for the Jeffersontown Fire Department.
As Police Chaplain, Reverend Dillard provides many services to the police department's employees and families, to the City Hall employees and families, and to the Public Works Department employees and families. Many hospital visits are made each week; a number of marriages are performed each year, and several funerals are conducted for city personnel families. In addition, Chaplain Dillard provides counseling services and other assistance to any city official or employee when called upon to do so.
Chaplain Dillard spends a lot of time working in the community. He regularly assists in the D.A.R.E. Graduations in the elementary and middle schools. He works closely with the Dare to Care/Jeffersontown Area Ministries to help indigent citizens and transient people coming through our community. He also helps with many community-wide events such as: The Community Prayer Breakfast, Community Thanksgiving Service; Community Choir which led a 9/11 service; and the Annual F.O.P. Christmas party for needy children and their families.
Chaplain Dillard spends a great amount of time representing Jeffersontown in the police band, "Street Heat". This band performs some 35 concerts each year, mainly to the 4th and 5th grade students in Jefferson County with an anti-drug/anti-violence message in word and song. The band also makes five (5) out-of-town trips each year to share their message through the Common- wealth of Kentucky. As of 2003, this program is 14 years old, and has reached well over 1,000,000 children. Chaplain Dillard is the president of the band. Chaplain Dillard also sings in a popular Gospel Group, "Fishers of Men" that perform throughout the community.
It is always is the desire for Chaplain Dillard to make himself available to anyone who has a need for his help. However much time is needed, Chaplain Dillard is ready and willing to be of help and assistance to the Jeffersontown Community, it's police department, citizens and even visitors whenever called upon.
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COLONEL RICHARD SANDERS, CHIEF OF POLICE
