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As of 2008, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol had an authorized strength of over 1,800 sworn law enforcement officers. In 2018, the NC State Highway Patrol arrested 19,910 people for Driving While Impaired and investigated 1,037 fatalities on North Carolina highways. The Motor Carrier unit fined thousands of truck drivers for various ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of North Carolina.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 504 law enforcement agencies employing 23,442 sworn police officers, about 254 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.
"That number represents a decrease of 7.1% from the previous year," Stroup said. ... two North Carolina State troopers made headlines for a crash that followed a high-speed chase. Based on review ...
A North Carolina state trooper won’t face charges for shooting and killing a man after a high-speed chase that ended in a crash last summer. Troopers with the N.C. State Highway Patrol exchanged ...
A traffic stop turns into a powerful display of compassion as a North Carolina State Trooper prays for a man with cancer. The story went viral on social media.
Local NC sheriffs did not have the personnel, resources or training to do so during that era, but did not want their powers usurped by a per-se state police agency. Thus, the NC State Highway Patrol was established on July 1, 1929. Its original command staff was sent to the Pennsylvania State Police Academy for training.
Pierce starting working for the Highway Patrol in 1999, stationed in Charlotte. He transferred to Gaston County in 2007 and plans to retire this year.