Ohio State Highway Patrol
| Ohio State Highway Patrol | |
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| Abbreviation | OSHP |
Patch of the Ohio State Highway Patrol
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Badge of the Ohio State Highway Patrol
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1933 |
| Employees | 2,521 (as of 2012) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Ohio, USA |
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| Ohio State Highway Patrol districts and posts | |
| Size | 44,825 square miles (116,100 km2) |
| Population | 11,538,504 (2010 Census) |
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| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio |
| Troopers | 1,530 (as of 2012) |
| Civilians | 991 (as of 2011) |
| Agency executive | Colonel Paul A. Pride, Superintendent |
| Parent agency | Ohio Department of Public Safety |
| Districts | 9 |
| Website | |
| http://statepatrol.ohio.gov/ | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is a division of the Ohio Department of Public Safety and is the official highway patrol agency of Ohio.
Operationally, the Patrol is divided into units whose varying tasks complement the mission of the Patrol to provide safe roadways throughout the state. Operational units include the Office of Field Operations, units specializing in Aviation, a Special Response Team, Crash reconstruction, Inspections, Mobile Field Force, and Criminal Patrol; Human Resource Management, includes Labor Relations, Career Development and the Administrative Investigation Unit; Office of Investigative Services, includes statewide investigation of crimes occurring on state owned or leased property, crime lab, polygraph services, executive protection for the governor, criminal intelligence and computer crime unit; License and Commercial Standards, which provide for oversight of driver's license and commercial vehicle regulations throughout the state;
The Patrol also has administrative offices which include the Offices of Technology and Communication Services, Finance and Logistics Services, Strategic Services and Recruitment and Training.
The Patrol maintains 55 posts, each administered by one of eight districts and responsible for one, two, or three of Ohio's 88 counties or the Ohio Turnpike. The Berea/Turnpike District operates from four posts on the Ohio Turnpike. Since the turnpike opened in 1955, the Ohio Turnpike Commission has contracted with the Ohio State Highway Patrol to provide law enforcement and assistance to disabled or stranded motorists. They are the only law enforcement agency with jurisdiction on the turnpike.
Recently the Patrol created a mission statement entitled "LifeStat 1.0", detailing the strategic goals for the Patrol. Allowing state patrol to enforce higher than the average citation. One of the primary goals of this document was the reduction of traffic crash deaths in Ohio to one per 100 million vehicle miles traveled by the end of 2007.; the goal was ambitious: the rate reduced to 1.13 in 2007, 1.10 in 2008 . According to the Patrol, its 1,400 Troopers made over 1.4 million professional stops in 2006, with 60 percent being non-enforcement stops to help, assist or educate motorists. Twenty-five percent of enforcement-related stops in 2006 was for either aggressive driving or for an OVI offense. The Patrol arrested 26,187 drivers for OVI in 2006, and cited 133,650 drivers for aggressive driving.
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