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The omicron surge has caused some issues for regional law enforcement agencies, but it has not caused large disruptions on patrol or fire shifts.

Officials from Owensboro and Daviess County law enforcement and fire agencies said last week that the surge has occasionally required them to pay overtime to fill shifts, but said operations have been largely unaffected.

Trooper Corey King, public affairs officer for Kentucky State Police’s Henderson post, said Thursday that the agency had three troopers out earlier in the week with various illnesses…