33 New Troopers to Hit Oregon Roadways

Ten of the 28 graduating OSP recruit Troopers occupy positions created last winter when the legislature’s Emergency Board approved Governor Kulongoski’s proposal to add more Troopers.

(SALEM) - Following approximately 880 hours of intensive training over a 21-week period, the Oregon State Police will present graduation certificates to 28 recruits and five recruit officers from other law enforcement agencies on Friday. The Governor sent his congratulations to the newly trained recruits. "These courageous Oregonians have chosen to serve their fellow citizens in a demanding and often dangerous profession," the Governor said. "They exemplify the kind of commitment that enables the rest of us to live safe, secure lives. We all owe them a debt of gratitude." Ten of the 28 graduating OSP recruit Troopers occupy positions created last winter when the legislature’s Emergency Board approved Governor Kulongoski’s proposal to add more Troopers to the OSP. The Governor has also pledged to seek full legislative approval to add 24-hour-a-day/seven-day-a-week patrol coverage to Oregon’s highways in an effort to fight drug trafficking and make highway travel safer. The other 18 State Police positions resulted from retirements, resignations and other factors. Twenty-three will be assigned to the Patrol Services Division and five to the Fish and Wildlife Division. "I’m especially pleased that this graduating class includes the ten additional Troopers we sought this year," the Governor added. "I’m grateful for the bipartisan legislative support that made this important measure possible." More local law enforcement recruits received training in this class alongside OSP recruits than ever before. The Governor applauded such combined training, saying that it promotes cooperation and coordination among the state and local law enforcement agencies. From now on, law enforcement training for all Oregon’s police agencies will occur at the recently opened Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) facility near Salem. The graduation ceremony will mark the final time that such training occurs at Camp Rilea, located on the Oregon coast south of Warrenton.

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Give Me A Break September 30, 2006 8:28 am (Pacific time)

Eddie likes out of control agencies like the I.R.S. He thinks it's ok for the government to use satellites to monitor people. What kind of a world does he want to live in? I think that the Infernal Revenue along with other government agencies should have a satellite shoved up their kazoos.

Henry Ruark September 21, 2006 10:00 am (Pacific time)

Al et al: Again finding myself 99% in agreement with your probing and detailed statements of realities. But dunno about skewing -- been skewered a time or two after foot-in-mouth error, but news-assignment usually confrontational in my experience, albeit with "friendly" police from solid positive situations previously...thus making situation obviously that much more involved, intense, and demanding of professional integrities --on both sides.

Albert Marnell September 21, 2006 3:26 am (Pacific time)

Henry, Lack of money is the root of all evil. With jobs being outsourced, domestic jobs being very limited, families not being families anymore (both parents working), what are people supposed to do? They get depressed and angry. Then they take substances or commit crimes. This problem is so complex. Petty laws grow and grow and interfere with life. Did you ever visit one of my favorite sites, www.badcopnews.com? News people are usually protected from abuse by law enforcement. Respectfully I ask you; could that have skewed your perception of the police and law enforcement?

Henry Ruark September 21, 2006 12:20 am (Pacific time)

Let's get serious, folks...every newsperson soon learns to respect the police personnel and their 99%-number who "do it right". What we need to watch out for is political influence, exercised best by fragmenting the force. A single strong State-level operation is wiser than opening the door for political maneuver in every County, impossible to avoid otherwise. That's why Gov-K has moved to mount up more strength via more State troopers...wise move and also much more dollar-efficient, which is why stupid state-study otherwise was abandoned except by those seeking political change.

Albert Marnell September 20, 2006 8:53 pm (Pacific time)

Eddie, One last thing. I have overpaid my taxes to the tune of millions (which I resent). I know where the money goes and it is all wasted. I always pay my parking tickets too. (but I am so careful I have not had one in 18 years.)

Albert Marnell September 20, 2006 8:42 pm (Pacific time)

Eddie, I can only go by a lifetime of observation. My first experience with the police was when I was 4, my brother 6, and his friend 7. There was a windstorm and two police officers told us to go into the street and pick up the broken glass from a lamppost. Thank God the mother of the older boy was not in view but heard everything. She ripped their lips off. I see the flaws that most people do not even see. When you go to a store and someone steals a pair of shoes, they call that shrinkage. When a cop gets a free gym membership or free pizza (totally illegal) I call that shrinkage. We all have to pay for the favors that the police get everyday. Often the favors are alot more than pizza. I'm sorry if I offend a few of the guys that mean no harm but I eventually see virtually all of them (99%) break the law daily or do something stupid, crooked or just plain evil. They become police because it is a secure government job with lots and lots of benefits, not because they are altruistic. The longer they are in the game the more criminal they become and the sick thing is they never see themselves in the mirror. They are always looking at everyone else as misbehaving. I really am sorry but the stories go from 1959 to the present. I hear them at the gym and am shocked at what they do, ie. redistribute cocaine and other drugs, then rationalize it by saying they have to put their kids through college. I know it is hard for someone like you to understand someone like me that has seen the same things, year, after year, after year. I do not mean to hurt anyone. I am just telling the truth about what I have seen and know over a lifetime. Sorry! Your statement also makes you sound like a cop even though I do not know if you are one. I have never been in any kind of legal trouble where I was the culprit. It was always the other way around. Cops make so many sickening assumptions that it is sickening. Check out www.badcopnews.com

Eddie Halsey September 20, 2006 6:20 pm (Pacific time)

The IRS trying to take your house Al? Big brother have a satellite honed in on your location due to some unpaid fines or something? Your venom for anyone in law enforcement is a bit blanketed. Many police are just doing a job, and helping others. Yes some are corrupt and should be behind bars, as with citizens too. Some are criminals, some are good citizens. You can't just blanket an issue and expect to be taken seriously.

Henry Ruark September 20, 2006 4:04 pm (Pacific time)

Al: Lighten up a bit, friend. Saxton has easy-pay plan: He'll ask Paul Allen for six Blazer-caps for each trooper. Think of all those dollars-saved by such "efficient management" -- each trooper has gotta have three hats, plus maintenance and repair.

Albert Marnell September 20, 2006 4:15 am (Pacific time)

Kulongoski is so full of it. People become Troopers for the $$$$$$$ and the benefits and the behind the scenes power that occurs in a mafia like setting. We need more troopers like we need more SUVs. Meanwhile, more and more people are working 60 hours a week at places like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens etc. and are barely making a living. We are going to have a poor middle class and a bloated overpaid police bureaucracy and military. Expect to loose more of you civil rights. You are a suspected criminal just because you have a drivers license. You also are fighting people who are provided lawyers when you want to challenge them. With your meager salaries, you pay for those lawyers with your taxes. You are put in a weak position and they have almost endless power. Just like the occupation of the British in the late 1700's you might as well have the troopers and police wearing REDCOATS. Living wage jobs are evaporating overseas. How can they hire more Redcoat soldiers (Troopers) at inflated salaries and benefits to keep you more and more imprisoned with ever increasing layers of law. The average person has been reduced to a peasant and the Lords of the Manor run the large multinationals. Unless you are on the board of directors, you no longer can make a reasonable dignified living. The elite want more police and soldiers as the country descends more and more into economic crises. Laws are made by the rich and for the rich and to protect the rich from the poor.

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