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Nita Franklin, is 2015 KSP Civilian Employee of the year Clarkston resident takes top honors. Nita Franklin played a major role is rescuing 10 year old child in Texas Click on headline for complete list of recipients, and photo(s) By Sgt Michael Webb Frankfort, KY - Twenty-five civilian employees were honored today by the Kentucky State Police at a ceremony highlighting their performance and public service during the past year. Clarkson-resident Nita Franklin was named 2015 KSP Civilian Employee of the Year. A 14-year veteran of the agency, Franklin is a Police Telecommunicator II at KSP Post 4 in Elizabethtown. Franklin was recognized for a January 2015 incident that made a tremendous difference in the life of a child when she answered a call from a male subject regarding a custodial interference complaint. He explained that the biological, but non-custodial mother of his 10-year-old daughter had failed to return the child from a visitation with her in Texas. "The father told me he had received a message from the child's mother that she would not come back to a state where she would be arrested and she was headed for the border," said Franklin. Franklin immediately accessed FBI National Crime Information Center resources and entered the child as "missing endangered" due to the mother's past history of mental and physical abuse. Her next move played a critical role in bringing the situation to a positive conclusion. "I obtained the mother's cell phone number and requested a "ping" on her phone from the service provider," she said. When this process located the mother in Texas, Franklin contacted local authorities and provided them with a description of the vehicle, suspect and child. "Subsequent pings, which were coming in at about 15-minute intervals, tracked the vehicle travelling south heading toward the Mexican border," Franklin recalls. "I was contacting authorities in those jurisdictions while continuing to monitor the pings." To her relief, it wasn't long before she received a call from the Shelby Co. (Texas) Sheriff's Office advising that the vehicle in question had been stopped and the occupants detained. (The mother was taken into custody and the child was eventually returned safely to her father.) Franklin remembers that the most challenging part of the incident involved her unfamiliarity with the geography. "While trying to stay ahead of the vehicle between ping notifications, I was online researching maps and contact numbers for agencies in Texas as I was unfamiliar with the area," she said. "The ping information only listed the GPS coordinates and showed a small map of the location," she adds. "Finding the appropriate agency to contact took time and kept me busy, so I really didn't think about the stress until it was over. It was a rewarding feeling when we received the call that the vehicle had been stopped." "Due to Nita's persistence and desire to go above and beyond her job duties and responsibilities, the child was safely returned to her biological father," notes retired KSP Capt. David Millay, who was commander of Post 4 when the incident occurred. "Had the suspect made it across the border, the child's life could have turned out much different." "Telecommunicators are the life line for our troopers every day," says Millay, "and Nita has proven to be an invaluable asset to the Kentucky State Police. In my 20 years with the agency, I have met very few people who possess the demeanor she maintains under normal and event-driven stressful situations." Other KSP civilian employees who received awards included: Administrative Support Service Award - Judy Guiler, Administrative Specialist III, Drug Enforcement/Special Investigations-East Region - Emily Perkins, Internal Policy Analyst III, Legal Services Branch-Frankfort Administrative Support Supervisor Award - Brandy Mayes, Administrative Section Supervisor, Financial/Grants Management Branch-Frankfort Clerical Support Service Award - Rebecca Eubanks, Administrative Specialist II, Post 11-London - Deborah Fisher, Administrative Specialist III, Administrative Division-Frankfort - Deborah Flowers, Administrative Specialist II, Post 1-Mayfield - Libby Wilson, Administrative Specialist III, Financial/Grants Management Branch-Frankfort Commercial Vehicle Support Award - Ramona Lawson, CVE Inspector II, Region 5-Morehead - William Moore, Administrative Specialist I, Region 5-Morehead Driver Testing Administrative Support Award - Trina Nugent, Certified Driver's Test Administrator II, East Region - Kathy Perry, Certified Driver's Test Administrator I, West Region Forensic Services Support Award - Jeremy Triplett, Forensic Laboratory Supervisor, Central Laboratory Branch-Frankfort - Sally Edwards, Forensic Scientist Specialist II, Central Laboratory Branch-Frankfort - Amelia Barker, Forensic Scientist Specialist II, Jefferson Laboratory Branch-Louisville Police Communications Support Award - Kim Lewis, Police Telecommunications Supervisor, Post 4-Elizabethtown - Tiffany Fields, Police Telecommunicator II, Post 6-Dry Ridge - John Stacy, Police Telecommunicator II, Post 13-Hazard Maintenance Support Service Award - Timothy Hopkins, Maintenance Worker II, Post 9-Pikeville Properties Management & Supply Technical Support Service Award - Donnie Webster, Property Officer II, Properties Management Branch-Frankfort Communications Technical Support Service Award - John Powell, Network Analyst III, Communications Branch-Headquarters-Frankfort Computer Technology Technical Support Award - Laurie Buchanan, Internal Policy Analyst III, Electronic Crime Branch-Frankfort Records Technical Support Service Award - Ariah Faulkner, Program Coordinator, Criminal Identification & Records Branch-Frankfort Scientific Support Service Award - Terry Lohrey, Systems Consultant IT, Criminal Identification & Records Branch-AFIS-Frankfort Operational Support Award Lisa Rose, - Criminal Intelligence Analyst II, Post 12-Frankfort "These award winners represent the best of the best of our civilian employees," said KSP Commissioner Rodney Brewer. "They truly are the underpinning of the Kentucky State Police and epitomize the professional image that we constantly strive to project." This story was posted on 2015-10-21 14:14:42
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