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A long-term resident of [[Bossier City]], Dooley was born in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. An uncle and a cousin served there in the Memphis Police Department. Two of Dooley's sons followed him into law-enforcement work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134253120|title=Vol Sevier Dooley, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|author=John Andrew Prime|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>
A long-term resident of [[Bossier City]], Dooley was born in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. An uncle and a cousin served there in the Memphis Police Department. Two of Dooley's sons followed him into law-enforcement work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134253120|title=Vol Sevier Dooley, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|author=John Andrew Prime|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>
In 1950, he joined Troop G of the Louisiana State Police and was a state trooper until 1954, when he began employment with the Bossier Sheriff's Office.<ref name=shrtimes/> With the state police, he developed an expertise in fingerprinting and photographic equipment, which he brought to the sheriff's department.<ref name=statepolice>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4GtEKTzUGIC&pg=PA28 |author=Charles D. Cardin|title=Images of America: Bossier Parish|page=28|publisher=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]: Arcadia Publishing Company |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-7385-0172-7|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref>
In 1950, he joined Troop G of the Louisiana State Police and was a state trooper until 1954, when he began employment with the Bossier Sheriff's Office.<ref name=shrtimes/> With the state police, he developed an expertise in fingerprinting and photographic equipment, which he brought to the sheriff's department.<ref name=statepolice>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4GtEKTzUGIC&pg=PA28 |author=Charles D. Cardin|title=Images of America: Bossier Parish|page=28|publisher=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]: Arcadia Publishing Company|date=1999|isbn=978-0-7385-0172-7|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref>
==Twelve years as sheriff==
==Twelve years as sheriff==