The annual Officers of the Year award have been handed out by Hamilton County Prosecutor Lee Buckingham, and Fishers Detective Kirby Campbell is one of the recipients. He and Officer Lydia Fairchok received the award at a February 3rd ceremony in Noblesville.

The local prosecutor recognizes one road officer and one detective in handing out the annual honor.  Detective Campbell is this year’s honoree for investigators, Officer Fairchok, from the Sheridan Police Department, is the winner in the road officer category.

Buckingham cited the variety of cases worked by Detective Campbell, relying upon his law enforcement training and his undergraduate degree from Ball State University,  along with his master’s degree in criminal justice from Bethel University.  Since joining the Fishers Police Department in 2012, Det. Campbell worked in the patrol division before joining the investigations division in January 2017.  Buckingham highlighted Det. Campbell’s skill at synthesizing the facts in a clear and concise way, without sacrificing the elements of the crime or the accurate account of the events.

“Fortunately, we continue to be blessed here in Hamilton County, we continue to have a large contingency of very fine law enforcement officers,” Buckingham said in a news release.  “Each year I talk about how it is never easy to select the recipients of this award, not because of dearth of candidates, but rather because of the difficulty in selecting just one recipient in each category from the many viable candidates within the county.”