In Popular Culture
- The alternate-timeline historical fiction author Harry Turtledove has used a fictionalized Kentucky State Police as a plot device in his Southern Victory Series.
- The Kentucky State Police was featured throughout the 1998 movie U.S. Marshals which starred Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr. and Joe Pantoliano.
- The Kentucky State Police was featured as the agency conducting the investigation into the death of an EPA agent in the 1997 movie Fire Down Below starring Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Levon Helm.
- The Kentucky State Police are featured in the FX drama Justified. Peter Murnick plays Kentucky State Trooper Tom Bergen, who assists Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens throughout season 2.
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