School-PD stand-up specialty consulting helping Christian County Public Schools build its own police department from scratch — Kentucky's rarest district configuration.

The December 18, 2025 board vote ended HPD and Sheriff SRO contracts effective the 2026-27 academic year and FY26 respectively. The new in-house agency requires a complete municipal-style police-startup stack starting in fall 2026 with the new consolidated CCHS opening. A 16-position table of organization needs a policy library plus standard operating procedures plus training curriculum plus radio integration plus vehicle upfit plus body-cam systems plus dispatch integration plus insurance binding plus an accreditation pathway. The Kentucky Center for Safe Schools mandates training compliance for every certified school-LE officer in the Commonwealth. SRO budget growth from $316,000 (FY20) to $1.017 million (FY25), recapitalized as the new in-house agency budget, frames the per-district scale.

The credentialing stack is short for the consulting and policy-development tier (months, not years) but specialty-deep for the systems-integration tier. KCSC-aligned consulting requires no formal certification but rests on reputational credentials — Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police accreditation projects or state-police-academy curriculum-design experience. P25 and SERVS Land Mobile Radio specialty certification (Motorola APX or Kenwood NX-5000 manufacturer cert) runs a 3-to-6-month track. Police professional liability insurance brokerage requires a specialty broker license plus existing Kentucky relationships at Travelers, Public Risk Management, or McGriff. KACP accreditation pathway expertise comes from the volunteer-assessor program plus a 2-to-3-year accreditation cycle.

Most Kentucky school districts use city or sheriff SRO contracts. Jefferson County Public Schools operates its own school-PD as the documented precedent. Beyond JCPS and Christian, the consulting and policy market for school-PD stand-up at the Kentucky-statewide tier is small — estimate 5 to 15 districts considering similar configurations over the next 5 years (verification pending via KSBA polls and KACP intelligence). National school-LE specialty firms (Lighthouse Public Affairs, COPSync, IXP Corporation) compete at the upper tier on $150 to $300 an hour consulting rates. A Christian-resident specialty practice competes on relationship-tier intake at the District board level and on Kentucky State Police academy-aligned curriculum design. Police professional liability insurance brokerage is a specialty market with limited Christian-area broker presence; the founder-fit lane is anchoring as an out-of-state-broker referral partner with Christian-area presence.

No prior county we have reported on had a school district standing up its own school-PD. The December 18, 2025 board vote is the dated event the candidate rides. The CCPS Board, the district superintendent, the Hopkinsville Police Department Chief, and the Sheriff are all named on public-record decision-vote statements. The candidate published does not name HPD or the Sheriff as having performed deficiently — the CCPS Board's stated rationale (cost effectiveness, direct supervision, and Kentucky Center for Safe Schools alignment) is the public-record framing.

Year 1 stand-up consulting. The initial CCPS engagement covers KCSC-aligned policy library development, organizational stand-up, curriculum development, and accreditation-pathway entry. Single-engagement scope produces $80,000 to $200,000 in founder take-home Year 1 across a 6-to-12-month delivery cycle. The founder operates a 1-to-2-person LLC at this stage.

Year 2 recurring annual retainer. The CCPS recurring scope covers annual policy updates, officer-training delivery, audit, and KACP accreditation maintenance. The annual retainer runs $60,000 to $150,000 from CCPS alone.

Year 3 replication across Kentucky districts considering similar configurations. The pool is estimated at 5 to 15 districts over 5 years (verification pending). Replication scope bills $40,000 to $120,000 per district stand-up — lower than the CCPS anchor pricing because second and subsequent engagements reuse the curriculum and policy library. Capacity to anchor 3 to 5 stand-up engagements a year at the founder-LLC tier produces $300,000 to $600,000 in total Year 3 gross.

Multi-stream economics combined. Year 1 $80,000 to $200,000; Year 2 $140,000 to $350,000 (CCPS retainer plus first replication engagement); Year 3 $300,000 to $600,000 (CCPS retainer plus 3 to 5 replication engagements). Founder take-home Year 3 stabilizes at $180,000 to $420,000 depending on consulting-rate density and KACP accreditation-pathway concentration. Capital expenditure is minimal — credentialed staff salaries plus tooling (KCSC curriculum library access, P25 and SERVS LMR demo equipment for the LMR subspecialty, accreditation-software access via KACP).

• Christian County Public Schools Board

  K-12 procurement counterparty and decision-vote authority

  Institution

  Board chair and member roster published at christian.kyschools.us. December 18, 2025 vote on in-house school-PD stand-up. NCES district 2101150; Kentucky district 405. About 8,184 students.
• CCPS district superintendent's office

  K-12 administrative leadership

  Institution

  Direct intake counterparty for the post-vote stand-up scope. Contact information published at christian.kyschools.us.
• Kentucky Center for Safe Schools

  State school-LE training authority

  Out-of-county

  Mandates training compliance for every certified school-LE officer in the Commonwealth. KCSC-aligned consulting is the founder-fit anchor for the policy, curriculum, and organizational stand-up scope.
• Kentucky State Police LMR specialty

  State P25 and SERVS Land Mobile Radio coordination authority

  Out-of-county

  Kentucky Statewide Emergency Radio Voice System interoperability requirement for the new CCPS school-PD radio stack.
• Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police

  State professional association; accreditation pathway

  Out-of-county

  KACP accreditation is the volunteer-assessor 2-to-3-year cycle the new CCPS school-PD agency will pursue. Christian-resident specialty practice can serve as accreditation-pathway consultant.
• Hopkinsville Police Department and Christian County Sheriff

  Existing SRO contract incumbents; contracts ending FY26 and 2026-27

  Active in market

  Existing SRO providers; the December 18, 2025 CCPS Board vote ends both contracts. Public-record reference benchmarks.
• Lighthouse Public Affairs, COPSync, IXP Corporation

  National school-LE and municipal-LE specialty consulting firms

  Out-of-county

  National-tier $150 to $300 an hour consulting. Christian-resident specialty practice competes on relationship-tier intake plus Kentucky State Police academy-aligned curriculum design.
• Travelers, Public Risk Management, McGriff

  Police professional liability insurance brokerages

  Out-of-county

  Existing Kentucky school-LE liability brokerage relationships. Christian-resident specialty practice can anchor as out-of-state-broker referral partner.
• Motorola Solutions APX and Kenwood NX-5000 P25 LMR integrators

  P25 and SERVS LMR systems-integrator specialty pool

  Out-of-county

  Same vendor pool as the Christian County Fiscal Court multi-county P25 candidate. Cross-sell across the two candidates is the structural moat.
• $131M consolidated Christian County High School (Hafer Architects + Alliance Corp)

  Capital-project venue requiring the new school-PD operational by fall 2026

  Institution

  320,000 square feet; 29 bid packages; $106.4 million construction value. The new agency must be operational alongside the building opening.

The acquisition lane is build-it for the founder owner-operator scope. There is no existing Kentucky-resident dedicated school-PD stand-up specialty consulting practice. The consulting market for Kentucky-statewide configurations like this is small. The realistic founder builds the practice de novo, lands the first KCSC-aligned engagement with CCPS as anchor client, expands to a recurring annual retainer at CCPS in Year 2, and replicates across other Kentucky districts considering similar configurations in Year 3.

The highest-yield path is a partnership-then-anchor conversation with one of the existing Kentucky-resident municipal-LE consulting practices that does not yet have school-LE specialty scope. Kentucky-resident retired police chiefs, municipal-LE consultants, and state-police-academy curriculum designers can pivot into school-PD specialty by adding KCSC-aligned curriculum plus KACP accreditation-pathway expertise. The reader becomes the partner first — taking sub-engagement work on the $80,000 to $200,000 initial CCPS stand-up scope for 6 to 12 months as a named specialty bench inside an existing municipal-LE consulting firm — and then anchors the founder LLC, recruits the P25 and SERVS LMR-specialty roles to the founder LLC, or builds out independently from cash flow once the CCPS recurring retainer base stabilizes.

Credentialing scope is short for the consulting and policy tier and longer for the LMR subspecialty. KCSC-aligned consulting requires no formal certification but does require reputational credentials. KACP accreditation-pathway expertise is the volunteer-assessor program plus 2-to-3-year accreditation cycle observation. Motorola APX P25 certification is 3 to 6 months. Police professional liability insurance brokerage requires a Kentucky Department of Insurance specialty broker license plus Travelers, Public Risk Management, or McGriff carrier appointment.

• — CCPS Board chair and member roster — verify at christian.kyschools.us; the December 18, 2025 vote outcome is documented but the Board contact pathway is pending.
• — CCPS district superintendent direct contact — published at christian.kyschools.us; direct intake call pending.
• — KCSC accreditation-pathway scope and curriculum-development RFP — direct intake at safeschools.ky.gov pending.
• — Kentucky districts considering similar school-PD configurations over 2026-2030 — count and identification pending; KACP, Kentucky School Boards Association, and KSBA polls may surface candidates.
• — Police professional liability insurance carrier appetite for new school-PD agencies — Travelers, Public Risk Management, and McGriff Kentucky school-district book scope pending.
• — Motorola APX P25 and Kentucky State Police SERVS interoperability scope — Motorola Solutions Kentucky Government accounts manager direct intake pending.
• — Reversal risk — CCPS Board vote could be reversed via subsequent vote; HPD or Sheriff contract could be reinstated. Monitor Kentucky New Era and WHOP coverage through Q3 2026.
• — State preemption risk — the Kentucky General Assembly could legislate against school-PD stand-up configurations. Monitor LRC and Kentucky School Boards Association coverage.

Tonight, this week, this month — in that order. Each step produces a yes/no or a number, not a deeper understanding.