RUSHVILLE —
The Indiana State Police Post serving our area relocated from Rushville to Connersville in 1938. Since that time, the post known as “Old Post 6” has been a fixture south of Connersville on State Road 1. That changed at 2 p.m. Tuesday following a formal ceremony when the doors were locked and the lights turned off for the last time. Troopers and office personnel have been re-assigned and now call the Pendleton Post their home. The closure was a result of statewide budget cuts and consolidations in an effort to reduce the overall cost of the ISP. With current and former troopers and post commanders in attendance, the sometimes tearful service brought a close to a storied location that included the state’s only father and son post commanders, Elvin Comer during the 1970s and his son, Steve, who led the Connersville Post a few years ago. “With any transition there may be a few bugs, but for the most part it has been pretty smooth and we are pretty excited about the move. We are very disappointed that we have to leave the City of Connersville, we’ve had 70-plus years of a great relationship with the city and the county and we hate to leave, but progress demands it,” post commander 1st Sgt. Todd Fields said. He continued by saying that he and troopers have mixed emotions regarding the closure. “Change can be good. It gives us a chance to look back and see where we have been and the opportunity to look to the future. This is a hard day, but a good day,” he said. When asked what the change means to Rush County residents he said they would notice very little, if any, change. “Basically, all that is happening here today is that our office staff will be moving to the Pendleton Post. The troopers assigned to the counties that we normally cover — Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne, Henry and Rush — will be assigned to those counties and work the same shifts they normally work.” Troopers covering Franklin County will not move to Pendleton. They will be dispatched out of the Versailles Post. Concerns have been voiced that dispatchers in Pendleton and Versailles will not be familiar with area roads when dispatching troopers to calls. Fields sees that as a non-issue. “Troopers are being dispatched out of our regional dispatch center in Versailles at this time. That has been up and running since February and it appears that most of the dispatchers have worked here before, so most of them are familiar with the area,” Fields said. Frank Denzler can be contacted at (765) 932-2222 ext. 106 or via e-mail at frank.denzler@rushvillerepublican.com. Visit our Web site at www.rushvillerepublican.com.
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