Larry Roland grew up in Kansas City, Kansas with a strong sense of wanting to help the people in his community. As he got older that sense of service only got stronger. Born in the heart of the city in 1953, he was raised with strong values, a commitment to community and a quiet leadership that would later shape nearly half a century in law enforcement.

Roland, a retired law enforcement official who served with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol and as Undersheriff in the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department, died July 27 from Parkinson’s disease, he was 71.

In his 49 years of service, he held various assignments, including dispatch, traffic, the SWAT team, and even the helicopter unit. But ask the men who worked beside him, and they would say that Rola

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