Cpt. Kip Shuter

WARSAW — After 31 years with the City of Warsaw Police Department, Captain Kip L. Shuter is retiring effective Sept. 9, 2017. Shuter has been WPD’s Public Information Officer since 2010, providing information and press releases to area news agencies.

Shuter began his career with WPD in 1986 as a dispatcher and was hired as a patrol officer in 1988. He is an honors graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.  He has held the ranks of Dispatcher, Patrol Officer, Patrol Sergeant, Patrol Lieutenant, and Operations Captain during his 29 years of service as a police officer.

Additionally, Shuter is a certified crash reconstructionist, attending both leading U.S. crash reconstruction training institutions, Northwestern University Center for Public Safety and University of North Florida Institute of Police Technology and Management.  He is a certified Crash Data Retrieval (black box) technician and analyst and has served as WPD’s traffic homicide investigator for the past 27 years. Shuter is a 1990 founding member of the Indiana Association of Certified Accident Investigators and currently serves as its president. He also sits on the national board of directors for the World Reconstruction Exposition, Inc.

Shuter is a certified instructor, teaching topics of mapping and measuring, and determining speeds to new recruits at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield.

Shuter will be returning to his alma mater, Grace College, as the Associate Director of Special Events.