 If you've been waiting for the new Samsung Galaxy S22 device, then the team at Appalachian Wireless has some good news for you. Appalachian Wireless is launching all Samsung S22 models on sale. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Pikeville Police Department will be adding a new form of protection to its force. This week, Pikeville PD has begun distributing Level 3 plate carriers designed for taking on high-risk situations to its officers. Public Information Officer Tony Kahn reveals how the new carriers help the department. Well these are of course Level 3's and these are made to stop a higher caliber weapon. And we serve search warrants here, especially interdiction stuff. We serve those search warrants, we do entry. So these vests are another way that the city has sought to keep us safe. This will protect us against higher caliber rounds to our vital organs. Normally when we do search warrants, we're serving those warrants and they're going to be drug related. It's going to be basically looking for less narcotics. And where you mostly find narcotics, you're going to find a weapon. So that's what these vests are for. Our city bought these and it's just another tool that we can use with all the other equipment they buy us and get us and outfit us with to keep us safe and better serve the citizens of Pikeville. And while Pikeville PD received extra protection for their efforts, one officer's efforts were recognized with the Governor's Award. It's Officer Colby Hobson and he's been officer with us several years now. He won the Governor's Award for Occupant Safety, which is Seatbelt Award. Very prestigious award to win because it means you are getting out there and really hustling around and enforcing their seatbelt laws. And that's one of the main things as to where you're seatbelt. When they changed it to a primary offense many years ago, it made it much easier to educate people and enforce the law with it and seatbelt saved lives and it's proven. So he wrote the most seatbelts in the seatbelt violations in the department and received the Governor's Award and it's a good thing to do. Lastly while Conn says Hobson received the reward for seatbelt and DUI violations, he says his officers always go above and beyond to keep people safe. With our officers, it's kind of breaking rights too, but they get out here and everybody here absolutely goes above and beyond. People live in the city, the citizens, the businesses that are here, our administration, they see it every day. But it's good and it makes the officer feel good to get a pat on the back or receive awards like this. Even though they don't expect it, it's a good thing for them because it shows it's something they can show their families. Look what I do. Look what I've done. I have basically probably more than likely saved hundreds of lives by making them put their seatbelt on. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Hodgell.