While a good deal of attention has been focused recently on military chaplains, today's Texarkana (Texas/Arkansas) Gazette carries an article about the role of police chaplains. Tommy Gaither, a chaplain with the Texarkana, TX police, said: "As a chaplain, I ride with the officers 10 hours per month.... We don’t initiate religious conversation with them, but if they ask us a question or approach us about something, we are at liberty to talk with them."
Rev. Jerry Creek of the Southwest Arkansas Baptist Association, a former police chaplain who is now a military chaplain said that he approaches both chaplaincies alike: "No distinctions are ever made about denomination and we don’t push people towards religion. So many men and women are going off to war and many of them have questions. Our response is to ask them if they have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior or if they are in the process. When they tell us they are in the process, we offer to help them."
