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Oran Pape - the first member of the Iowa State Patrol to have been murdered in the line of duty, as well as the first State Trooper to die in the line of duty - is also buried at Linwood. Major Stuart Anderson - a member of the U.S. Army Reserve who died in the January 7, 2006 UH-60 Black Hawk near Tal Afar, Iraq was also recently buried at ...
The State Patrol was created in 1935 (as the Iowa Highway Safety Patrol), after an act creating the Patrol was passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor. Initially the patrol was composed of 50 men. [4] Later that same year, the word Safety was dropped from the name, and the unit became known simply as the Iowa Highway Patrol.
Pape attended the State Police Academy at Camp Dodge. He was appointed to the newly formed Iowa Highway Patrol (later Iowa State Patrol) in August 1935, one of the first men to become an officer in the Patrol. On April 28, 1936, Pape was patrolling U.S. Highway 61 near Muscatine, Iowa. He noticed a car that had been reported stolen.
The 109 Iowa National Guard soldiers who went to Texas in August ended their deployment on Friday. Iowa Department of Public Safety sends 31 officers to U.S.-Mexico border as National Guard ...
The Louisiana State Police also first started out as a highway patrol agency but in 1936 it was established as a state police, at the desire and influence of the late Governor Huey Long, who used the troopers as a powerful body guard force. Long is often called one of the most powerful Democratic politicians in US history.
The names of the two street racers and a passenger in one of their cars were released the next day by the Iowa State Patrol. Cases where police withhold names continue to increase, with the ...
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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Iowa. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 392 law enforcement agencies employing 5,830 sworn police officers, about 195 for each 100,000 residents.