Editing Overland Park, Kansas (section)

===Law enforcement===
The [[Overland Park Police Department (Kansas)|Overland Park Police Department]] is the main agency to patrol all of Overland Park with the [[Johnson County Sheriff's Office]] also assisting with serving papers and other court documents to people who work in the city as well as patrolling the unincorporated parts of the county and other cities in the county. OPPD has 310 full-time employees and 255 commissioned officers.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} On October 14, 2024, Doreen Jokerst was sworn in as the department's first female police chief.<ref name="Jackson 2024">{{cite web |last=Jackson |first=Alyssa |title=Overland Park's 1st female police chief has arrived, explains reforming policing, holistic crime approach |website=KSHB 41 Kansas City News |date=October 31, 2024 |url=https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/overland-parks-1st-female-police-chief-has-arrived-explains-reforming-policing-holistic-crime-approach |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref><ref name="McLaughlin 2024">{{cite web |last=McLaughlin |first=Kaylie |title=Overland Park's new top cop wants to bring transparency and innovation to the job |website=Johnson County Post |date=October 22, 2024 |url=https://johnsoncountypost.com/2024/10/22/chief-doreen-jokerst-oppd-245484/ |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>

The [[Kansas Highway Patrol]] tends to patrol the various interstates running through the city including [[Interstate 35 in Kansas|Interstate 35]] which runs through Overland Park along with [[U.S. Route 69 in Kansas|U.S. Route 69]] which runs through Overland Park and [[Interstate 635 (Kansas-Missouri)|Interstate 635]] on the Overland Park section being the main highways patrolled by KHP in Overland Park. However the KHP also does assist OPPD in instances such as car chases, traffic stops and other instances of officer needs assistance calls.