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HUTCHINSON -- Ed H. Pavey, director of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center near Hutchinson, has received the Clarence M. Kelley Meritorious Service Award. KLETC is a unit of University of Kansas Continuing Education.
Pavey was recognized April 11 in Wichita during the annual conference of the Kansas-Western Missouri FBI National Academy Associates.
The award, which recognizes exemplary careers in law enforcement, is sponsored and presented by the Clarence M. Kelley Group of Companies, a private investigative and consulting firm co-founded by Kelley, the late director of the FBI.
Pavey joined KLETC in 1989 as assistant director. He became acting director in 1994 and was appointed permanent director in 1995. As KLETC director, Pavey oversees all basic police training and law enforcement continuing education conducted in compliance with Kansas law.
He is a native of Wichita and a graduate of Wichita State University.
He began his law enforcement career with the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department in 1969, retiring in November 1989 at the rank of captain and division commander. He is a 1984 graduate of the FBI National Academy, a 1995 graduate of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Program in Quantico, Va., and a 1996 graduate of Leadership Kansas.
He is an ex officio member of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Commission and a member of the governor-appointed Kansas Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Committee, the Kansas Attorney General's Law Enforcement Advisory Committee, the U.S. Attorney's Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee, the advisory board of the Midwest Criminal Justice Institute at Wichita State University, and the governing boards of the Kansas Peace Officers' Association and the Kansas Sheriffs' Association. He chairs the governing advisory board for the U.S. Department of Justice regional Community Policing Institute at Wichita State University.
Pavey was one of eight law enforcement representatives to participate as trainer, adviser, observer and consultant to the police in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1993. In 1994, for his contributions to highway-rail crossing safety in Kansas, he received the International Association of Chiefs of Police J. Stannard Baker Award. In 1998, the Wichita Crime Commission named him criminal justice professional of the year.
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