The Monroe County Sheriff’s Reserve Division recently donated a vehicle to the Stinesville Police Department.
The 1995 Jeep Cherokee comes fully equipped with police gear and 47,000 miles on it. The addition will bring the total number of vehicles at SPD to three.
Stinesville Town Marshal Mark Crouch said the offer for the vehicle came from former Stinesville Town Marshal Randy Jacobs after the reserves department decided the vehicle would be decommissioned. He believed that SPD would benefit from a vehicle with four-wheel drive. Crouch readily accepted the offer.
Stinesville’s other two vehicles have around 70,000 and 100,000 miles on them, the oldest of which broke down last week.
To hand the Monroe County Sheriff’s Reserve vehicle over to SPD, however, Jacobs had to propose the idea, the Sheriff’s Reserve unit had to vote on it and both department Chief Dan Young and the Monroe County Board of Commissioners had to approve it.
Crouch said it was SPD’s good fortune that all of those things happened.
“Without the help of the other agencies, it would be tough – it would be tough to make it,” Crouch noted.
He added, “It was neat that (Jacobs) remembered us,” referring to the former town marshal’s Stinesville roots.
Originally published in Ellettsville Journal, 2013. Republished here for archival and portfolio purposes.