Louisville, Kentucky

===Public safety===
[[File:LouMetPolice.jpg|thumb|[[Louisville Metro Police Department|Metro Police]] cruiser]]
[[File:LMEMS 1255 (8).JPG|thumb|[[Louisville Metro EMS]] ambulance]]

The primary law enforcement agencies are the [[Louisville Metro Police Department]] (LMPD) and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO). ''911'' [[emergency medical services]] are provided by the government as [[Louisville Metro EMS]] (LMEMS) which responds to over 120,000 calls for service annually. Louisville Metro Department of Corrections operates two facilities housing approximately 2,000 inmates.

Louisville has recently been featured on the television show ''[[First 48]]''. The show follows LMPD's homicide unit while they try to solve murders.

Fire protection is provided by 16 independent [[fire department]]s working in concert through [[mutual aid (emergency services)|mutual aid]] agreements. The only fire department operated by Metro Government is [[Louisville Division of Fire|Louisville Fire & Rescue]], the successor to the pre-merger Louisville Division of Fire. The city of [[Shively, Kentucky|Shively]] in western [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson County]] possesses an independent fire department that uses the same dispatch and radio channels as Louisville Fire and Rescue.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} The other 14 fire departments in Louisville-Jefferson County are run by independent taxing districts, collectively referred to as the [[Jefferson County Fire Service]] (JCFS); the county fire service coordinates dispatch, training, and standardization for its member departments.