The Good Life – September-October 2017

City of Fargo Police Department’s Cultural Liaison
Officer, Vince Kempf welcomes New Americans to Fargo
with a focus on parents and helping them adjust to our
culture and laws.
Since August, 2016, Kempf has served in this role,
following after a seven-year stint by Christie Jacobsen.
Kempf has spent a great deal of his career on a Narcotics
task force but welcomes this shift in focus: “I will close
out my career with this position.”
Kempf became a part of the Fargo Police Department
in 1991, starting out as a patrol officer. A graduate of
St. John’s University with a degree in business, Kempf
moved to Fargo and, after spending some time with a high
school friend who was a Fargo police officer, he thought
it would be a good fit for him. He did some coursework
at Minnesota State University Moorhead in the Criminal
Justice program in preparation for the Minnesota Police
Academy. He was eventually was hired by Fargo Police
Department. He then attended the North Dakota Police
Academy.
When asked why the Cultural Liaison position appealed
to him, Kempf said: “I thought this would be a position
where my work would have long-term impact. I want
to see that down the road families can benefit from the
impact I can have in this position -- even if it is just one
or two families who learned how to parent and become
better adjusted to the laws here, even that is a big deal
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