Robert Kinsey:  

In high school I was more interested in football, hanging out with my buddies than anything else. I received a football scholarship to Chadron State. Don Gable and I roomed together and played football at CSC. I did not stay there because I had never figured out what I wanted to do after H.S. Came back to Scottsbluff and went to WNCC and hung out with buddies who were still around. Went back to work at the theaters where I had worked the summer before heading off to college. U began training to be a theater manager and did to that until April 1970. For some reason I responded to an ad for police officers for Scottsbluff. I was hired when still only 20. I worked as a dispatcher until I was 21 and was sworn in in May of 1971. I worked about 9 years as a uniformed patrol officer and also did rotations into the Detective Bureau. In 1979 I was promoted to Lieutenant and placed in charge of the Detective Bureau where I was assigned until I retired in 2005. I worked many very interesting high profile cases in Scotts Bluff County. I loved being a cop. AI retired to take a po...Expand for more