JPD Chaplains receive bulletproof vests via donations

The JPD Chaplains are a 501(c)3 nonprofit ministry with a 37+ year history of working in  support of the Joplin Police Department. Currently we have 7 local ministers who share  on call 24/7 duties in a weekly rotation.

Their responsibilities include counseling, death  notifications, disaster response, domestic disputes, ethics, support to police officers  and their families, officer deaths/funerals, post-shooting trauma, victim assistance, and  benevolence needs in the community. 

This year, bulletproof vests were identified as a need for the volunteer chaplain team.

The chaplain program sought donations to meet this need, and received an anonymous  private charitable gift along with donations made by the following local bank branches:  Central Bank, Great Southern Bank, and Community Bank & Trust.

As a 100% volunteer chaplain team, no financial gifts go toward salaries. Thus, any  proceeds we receive through our 501c3 nonprofit will go to the annual budgeted needs  for continued training and certifications, as well as for supplies and the officer appreciation dinner events which the chaplains host twice yearly. 

We thank the donors for their support, as the vests will help protect our chaplains on  incidents when they respond to ongoing, dangerous situations.