Arkansas Highway Patrol

Not to be confused with Arkansas Highway Police.

Arkansas Highway Patrol
Abbreviation	HPD
Agency overview
Formed	March 19, 1935
Employees	400 (as of 2009)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure

AHP Troop Map
Size	53,179 square miles (137,730 km²)
Population	2,834,797 (2007 est.)^[1]
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Little Rock, Arkansas
Agency executive	Colonel Winford E. Phillips, Director
Parent agency	Arkansas State Police
Facilities
Stations	Troop
Website
http://www.asp.arkansas.gov/divisions/hp/hp_commanders.html

The Arkansas Highway Patrol, officially known as the Highway Patrol Division, is the uniformed branch of the Arkansas State Police, and is responsible for general police traffic supervision, traffic, and criminal law enforcement on the rural highways of Arkansas. The AHP also assist with other incidents to include riots, prison disturbances, labor related disturbances, and providing security at public events.

Highway Patrol Division provides the following Services:

Driver Licensing & Examination - Each highway patrol troop commander is responsible for establishing a regular schedule of driver’s license testing in each of the troop counties.^[2]
Fatal Crash Summaries - Information obtained from an Arkansas State Police fatal crash summary represents only the initial findings by an investigating law enforcement officer. The summaries are not considered official reports of a highway crash investigation, but merely a summary of preliminary information presented to an investigating officer. The information contained in a summary may not represent the facts eventually placed on file in the official final report.^[3]

Organization

The Highway Patrol Division is divided into two regions both located at One State Police Plaza Dr., Little Rock, Arkansas

Eastern region with A, B, C, D, E & F Troops, is heade by Major J.R. Hankins,^[4]

Western region with G, H, I, J, K & L Troops, is headed by Major Les Braunns.^[4]

Field organization

The Highway Patrol Division's Troops are as follows:

Troop A - Little Rock, Counties Served are Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline

Troop B - Newport, Arkansas, Counties Served are Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp, White

Troop C - Jonesboro, Arkansas, Counties Served are Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett, Randolph

Troop D - Forrest City, Arkansas, Counties Served are Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, Prairie, St. Francis, Woodruff

Troop E - Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Counties Served are Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln

Troop F - Warren, Arkansas, Counties Served are Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Ouachita, Union

Troop G - Hope, Arkansas, Counties Served are Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Sevier

Troop H - Fort Smith, Arkansas, Counties Served are Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Scott, Sebastian

Troop I - Harrison, Arkansas, Counties Served are Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Stone

Troop J - Clarksville, Arkansas, Counties Served are Conway, Johnson, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell

Troop K - Hot Springs, Arkansas, Counties Served are Clark, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike, Polk

Troop L - Springdale, Arkansas, Counties Served are Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington

Other units

ASP Criminal Patrol Unit - A specialty team assigned to work the interstate highways and seek out wanted fugitives and smugglers who may be transporting stolen goods or narcotics.

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Arkansas State Police, 21 officers have died in the line of duty.^[5]

Officer	Date of Death	Details
Algin Sidney Pavatt	Sunday, September 26, 1948	Gunfire
Ermon Boyce Cox	Sunday, August 17, 1958	Gunfire
Elmer Glen Bradshaw	Saturday, December 11, 1965	Automobile accident
Harry F. Locke	Saturday, September 24, 1966	Automobile accident
Allen Harvie Bufford	Sunday, July 27, 1969	Gunfire
William Ronald Brooks III	Thursday, February 27, 1975	Gunfire
Kelly Ray Pigue	Friday, December 8, 1978	Automobile accident
Frederick Glen Bailey	Friday, September 5, 1980	Gunfire
William L. Rose Jr.	Tuesday, December 28, 1982	Automobile accident
Louis P. Bryant	Saturday, June 30, 1984	Gunfire
Corporal Robert Whittington Klein	Monday, October 15, 1984	Gunfire
Phillip Gene Osterman	Saturday, August 10, 1985	Aircraft accident
Charles Michael Bassing	Thursday, July 24, 1986	Aircraft accident
Wilson A. Atkins Jr.	Sunday, July 3, 1988	Struck by vehicle
Clark Kent Simpson	Saturday, February 18, 1989	Automobile accident
Johnny Mack Scarborough	Wednesday, September 2, 1998	Automobile accident
Thomas Allen Craig	Thursday, December 14, 2000	Struck by vehicle
Herbert James Smith	Wednesday, February 14, 2001	Automobile accident
Jimmie Harold White II	Saturday, June 1, 2002	Motorcycle accident
Mark Wesley Carthron	Monday, September 12, 2005	Vehicle pursuit
Richard C. LeBow	Monday, February 4, 2008	Automobile accident

References

External links

Highway patrol/state police in the United States

See also: Law enforcement in the United States and Highway patrol

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Federal district	District of Columbia

Insular areas	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

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