Tennessee Valley Authority Police

Tennessee Valley Authority Police
Common name TVA Police
Abbreviation TVAP

Tennessee Valley Authority Police patch
Agency overview
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction)
United States
Legal jurisdiction Tennessee Valley - Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
General nature
Specialist jurisdiction Buildings and lands occupied or explicitly controlled by the institution and the institution's personnel, and public entering the buildings and precincts of the institution.
Operational structure
Headquarters 400 W. Summit Hill Dr., Knoxville
Parent agency Tennessee Valley Authority
Website
http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/tvap

The Tennessee Valley Authority Police is a law enforcement agency in the United States. It is a federally commissioned agency that provides protection for Tennessee Valley Authority properties and employees.[1]

History

Since 1933, TVA has employed public safety officers who have law enforcement responsibilities. Agency officers have provided security during times of war. They also provided emergency medical and firefighting services during the agency's construction phases and have staffed visitors' centers throughout the TVA system.

By the mid-1990s, the agency employed 500 public safety officers who were trained and certified at great expense. That number was reduced to 150, however, after 1994 when Congress passed legislation creating the U.S.TVA Police.

On September 12, 1995 125 officers from the TVA Public Safety Service were sworn in as Charter Members of the newly created TVA Police. TVA Police was organized into three districts that encompassed a seven-state area.

In May and June of 2012, TVA Police disbanded its uniformed patrol division and aligned itself more along the lines of other federal law enforcement agencies. Today TVA Police still employs sworn federal police officers in the capacity of Inspectors, Investigators and Technical Security Specialists. Contract security personnel are employed to supplement TVA Police and provide security at TVA facilities and other key locations.

TVAP Officers attend training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. .[2]

Primary Services

Additional Services

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority Police Department, two officers have died in the line of duty.[2]

Officer Date of Death Details
Thomas Harold Hood
Monday, March 18, 1974
Struck by vehicle
Timothy Patrick Huckaby
Tuesday, November 24, 1998
Automobile accident

See also

References

TVA Police


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