PENNY JONES
Penny Jones, a native of Vicksburg, MS, went to school for nursing because she always had a burning desire to help others. But her education had to take the back burner with the birth of her first daughter. Though she longed to go back to school, she realized she had to work and pay the bills. With chidings and encouragement from friends and family, she decided to go to worked at the Vicksburg Police Department. From the time she joined the police force in 1999, she has been an advocate for domestic violence. She remembers it being an eye-opener when she discovered there were three to four hundred calls per year, an average of more than one every day. Fellow male officers recognized her concern and special interest in helping the victims. Eventually she would head up the domestic violence division for the department where she witnessed every kind of abusive situation that could occur. Penny Jones has enjoyed quite a successful law enforcement career with the Vicksburg Police Department, having worked as an agent in the
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WOMAN TO WOMAN WITH JOANNE : THE MAGAZINE • Issue 33, October 2020
