TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he has placed an attorney in Goodland to help western Kansas county prosecutors and law enforcement.

Schmidt says in a release that Assistant Attorney General Nicole Romine  began working out of Goodland as of Saturday. Romine had been with the agency’s criminal litigation division at its Topeka headquarters.

It is the first time Schmidt has placed staff in a county to help local officials with their duties, especially in criminal prosecutions.

The attorney general’s office has also placed three drug prosecutors with task forces in southwest and southeast Kansas.