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Overland Park
Kansas
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Legacy of Excellence

As individuals join the organization, each brings their own values and beliefs. When these values and beliefs are strong and righteous, they are referred to as character. When the character of these individuals instills values and principles directly into the fabric of an organization, it is leadership.

Each of these individuals below have spent a lifetime practicing and exercising the principles and values sacred to them. Through their position and personal persuasiveness, each convinced others that the values they held as important should become central features in the collective value system of this department.

Bob Norman, detective Georgia Erickson, councilmember
Gus Ramirez, major Myron E. Scafe, chief of police
Donald E. Pipes, city manager Patrick L. Keating, sergeant
Gary Casida, lieutenant Ronald G. Jackson, major
Jeffery R. Dysart, captain Stephen Ford, deputy chief
Mike Santos, legal advisor Thomas "Tim" C. Owens, councilmember
Ed Eilert, mayor Dan Minteer, major
Harvey Bodker, civil service commissioner