Serving Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana.
Greater Cincinnati Police & Fire Chaplain Services is operated solely as an ecclesiastical organization. We are a non-profit and non-denominational organization.
Our services are available to all:
Law Enforcement Agencies
- Police
- Sheriff
- Public Safety
- State Law Enforcement Agencies
- Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Fire and EMS Departments
- Fire
- Rescue
- EMS
- Medical Helicopter / Helicopter EMS Agencies
Other Emergency Agencies
- Dispatch / 911 Communications Agencies
- Emergency Management Agencies
- Hazardous Materials Agencies
- Hospital Emergency Rooms
- Coroners' Offices
in the Cincinnati metropolitan area (Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana). You are more than welcome to contact us anytime.
Duties of a Police & Fire Chaplain:
1. Respond to serious or major incidents to provide support and spiritual guidance to personnel, as well as to civilians that may be in a panic situation. The presence of a chaplain can be extremely beneficial.
2. Report to hospitals in the event of serious injuries to personnel. If requested, notify family members.
3. Assist when personnel are seriously injured, ill, or deceased. Provide guidance to family members of deceased personnel.
4. Provide spiritual guidance and counseling to personnel upon request. Any communication a person makes to the chaplain is strictly on a confidential basis and will not be released to any other person. Communication with a chaplain is protected by law which is similar to the attorney-client privilege.
5. Provide guidance and counseling for personnel regarding job-related problems or personal problems, including counseling with immediate family members.
6. Provide a listening ear and attempt to assist personnel with unusual problems encountered when the normal channels of solution do not remove the stress.
7. Provide spiritual guidance to civilians at serious or major incidents, and assist in keeping distraught citizens from interfering with the work of personnel.
8. Assist victims of tragedy to receive aid from the Red Cross and other organizations.
9. Attend departmental functions or staff meetings, when requested.
10. Spend time at stations or do ride-alongs to provide friendship and fellowship with personnel.
11. Chaplains believe in the power of prayer, and are always ready to pray regarding each situation.
12. Chaplains are ordained ministers that are licensed to perform weddings and may conduct funerals, memorial services, baptisms, communion, and other religious activities when requested, including invocations and benedictions at official department functions.
Note: Chaplains provide spiritual, emotional, and mental support, pastoral care, counseling, and guidance with compassion. A chaplain does not replace the pastor of someone’s home church, but seeks to support with a specialty and expertise in the public safety field.
