COMMENDATION

Officer Kermit Yeager was hired as a police

trainee with the Hopkinsville Police

Department in June, 1972, was promoted to

patrol sergeant in 1977 after having served

as an undercover drug officer and as a detective.

Officer Yeager was promoted to patrol

captain in  1980 and was then promoted

to the rank of major and patrol commander

in 1992 in which position he served honorably

until retirement after more than

twenty-eight years of service on August 31, 2000.

Officer Yeager was rehired as Hopkinsville

police chief on February 18, 2003 and is

retiring on February 29, 2008 after five years

service as chief, making a total of thirty-

three years active service as a police officer

and police chief in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The citizens of Hopkinsville owe Chief

Kermit Yeager a great debt of gratitude

for his steadfast dedication to duty and

service to Hopkinsville and Christian County, Kentucky.

J. Daniel Kemp, Mayor of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hereby

commends Chief Kermit Yeager and thank him for his thirty-

three years of  outstanding and meritorious  service to the citizens of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.