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The Wyoming Highway Patrol is the highway patrol and de facto state police agency for the U.S. state of Wyoming, and has jurisdiction across the entire state. The goals of the Wyoming Highway Patrol are to make Wyoming's highways safer by reducing the number of traffic crashes, deaths, and injuries; to apprehend and arrest criminals using Wyoming's highways; and to assist motorists in trouble.
A highway patrol trooper was just seconds away from being struck by a commercial semitruck after it went off the road in Wyoming, officials said. The trooper was walking in the median of the road ...
Wyoming Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 6:50 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22. A driver in a Dodge Ram 3500 was traveling the wrong way on Interstate 80 and crashed into a commercial truck ...
"The officers said, as Smith attempted to exit the patrol car, they saw that he had a firearm. This encounter resulted in Smith being shot and killed at the scene." [52] 2014-09-18: Willis, Michael (42) Missouri (Jennings) St. Louis County police officers shot and killed a man after he pointed a rifle at them during a chase in suburban St ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wyoming. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 90 law enforcement agencies employing 1,691 sworn police officers, about 317 for each 100,000 residents.
The latest crash happened Thursday afternoon on U.S. 287 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the Wyoming-Colorado line between Laramie and Fort Collins, Colo. The two injured team members were ...
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.
Sep. 2—CHEYENNE — Missing data is preventing people from getting a clear picture of crime and policing in Wyoming, some say. To date, Wyoming Highway Patrol has yet to submit any data to the ...