Kentucky Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officers are now the
Kentucky State Police Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement; they will operate on the
KSP Post freqs for their regions (I have heard a few CVE Officers in Regions 4 and 5 as they have moved from one KSP Post area to another, checking-in and -out with the respective dispatchers). They are 4XXX units, some KSP Posts will see a great increase in radio traffic due to this change. A number of factors led to the merger but officer safety is the big winner here as CVE now operates on the KSP System. There won't be as much traffic on 453.30000, it is temporarily a stop-gap to run their more specialized vehicle checks as KSP Dispatchers take on the added responsibility of learning how to do those specialized checks and use new software programs to facilitate those checks.
I have deleted the Motor Vehicle Agency page to reduce the amount of confusion with this change... as additional Official information comes my way it will posted, but what I have posted thus far seems to be the nugget of the change. There are now four Divisions within the Kentucky State Police Organizational Tree: Admin, Operations, Special Operations and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement. Although there will be a reduction in the total force size due to retirements, etc, the former KVE Chain-of-Command remains fairly intact as the new CVE Division thus assuring continued aggressive Motor Vehicle Enforcement. In my opinion it appears to be a win for both organizations: KSP gains additional officers on the roads, CVE becomes a true law enforcement agency instead of bouncing from one identity to another as they are moved hither and yon.
These are the CVE Regions broken down by KSP Post and County:
CVE Region 1:
KSP Post 01-Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg
KSP Post 02-Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd, and Webster
KSP Post 16-Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, and Union
CVE Region 2:
KSP Post 03-Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Simpson, and Warren
KSP Post 04-Breckenridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Larue, Jefferson, Meade, and Nelson
KSP Post 15-Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Marion, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell, Taylor and Washington
CVE Region 3: :
KSP Post 05-Carroll, Gallatin, Henry, Oldham, Owen, and Trimble
KSP Post 06-Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Harrison, Kenton, Nicholas, Pendleton and Robertson
KSP Post 12-Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, and Woodford
CVE Region 4: :
KSP Post 10-Bell, Harlan, and Knox
KSP Post 11-Clay, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, and Whitley
CVE Region 5: :
KSP Post 7-Boyle, Clark, Estill, Garrard, Jackson, Jessamine, Lincoln, Lee, Madison, Mercer, and Owsley
KSP Post 8-Bath, Elliot, Fleming, Lewis, Mason, Menifee, Morgan, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan, and Wolfe
KSP Post 14-Boyd, Carter, Greenup, and Lawrence
CVE Region 6: KSP Post 09-Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin and Pike
KSP Post 13-Breathitt, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, and Perry