Wyoming Highway Patrol
| Wyoming Highway Patrol | |
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| Abbreviation | WHP |
Patch of the Wyoming Highway Patrol
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1933 |
| Employees | 339 (as of 2004) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Wyoming, USA |
| Size | 253,348 square kilometres (97,818 sq mi) |
| Population | 522,830 (2007 est.) |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| Troopers | Nearly 210 (as of 2010) |
| Civilians | 151 (as of 2004) |
| Agency executive | Kebin Haller, Colonel |
| Parent agency | Wyoming Department of Transportation |
| Website | |
| Wyoming Highway Patrol website | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
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 Wyoming Highway Patrol was created in 1933 to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Wyoming. It is also tasked with providing security and transportation to the Governor of Wyoming. As of 2013, it has 208 troopers.
Since the establishment of the Wyoming Highway Patrol, 2 officers have died while on duty.
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