RICHMOND - "What type of person does it take to be willing to get up in the morning and strap on a gun, knowing he may need to use it," Lt. Governor Stephen Pence asked during the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony.

"What type of person does it take to get up and be willing to put on a bullet proof vest as part of their job?

"Clearly, it takes a very special person, someone worthy of the honor that we are bestowing today on them."

The ceremony at the Department of Criminal Justice Training honored nine new names, among them Grayson County Constable Steven Hutchinson, added to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial, the state's only monument to all of Kentucky's fallen peace officers.

"An event like this is appropriate and very befitting of the type of recognition we need to give now to the law enforcement personnel who have gone before and made the supreme sacrifice, and also to recognize those here today who are willing to make that sacrifice - where would we be without them," Pence said.

This year's additions bring the total number of names on the monument to 343.

One officer whose name is now memorialized on the monument was killed in the line of duty within the last year.

Steven Hutchinson, Grayson County Constable, died June 17, 2004, when he and a teenager he was trying to apprehend were struck by an oncoming vehicle.

The constable had stopped his patrol car in opposing traffic on Highway 54 and was on foot attempting to apprehend the juvenile.

The driver of the other vehicle swerved to miss Hutchinson's car but could not avoid hitting Hutchinson and the teenager he was talking to in the area beside the roadway.

Steven Hutchinson had served on the Leitchfield Fire Department for 18 years and was elected constable in 2002.

An additional eight officers memorialized today were killed in the line of duty between 1917 and 1964 but had never been honored on the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Although the name of Officer Peter A. Grignon of the Louisville Metro Police Department was not dedicated at this year's ceremony due to timing conflicts, Grignon's sacrifice was honored during the ceremony.

Members of Grignon's family, Louisville Metro Lt. Col. Terri Winstead and several officers from the department attended the ceremony at the memorial, first unveiled in 2000.