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The Washington State Patrol has adopted Smith & Wesson's MP40 as its duty pistol because of the availability of replacement parts and multiple grip selection. The agency ordered 1,400 of the .40-caliber pistols from S&W, and will eventually cease using the Heckler & Koch .40-caliber autoloader.
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All available officers searched early Thursday for the person who shot and killed a Washington State Patrol trooper during a traffic stop about 20 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound.
Read More →Impaired drivers hit troopers 25 times in 2008, up from 11 in 2007. About half the crashes happened after a trooper had stopped another violator or pulled into the shoulder to handle an accident. In a recent crash, a trooper's patrol car was pushed into another vehicle already involved in a crash, the Washington State Patrol reported.
Read More →The Washington State Patrol says two men wanted for shooting at a trooper in Grandview early this week have been arrested.
Read More →A Washington State Patrol trooper is reportedly resting and in good spirits, after taking a bullet to the head from an armed man who fired two shots at him as he prepared a vehicle for towing.
Read More →A suspect in the shooting death of a Washington State Patrol trooper early Thursday shot himself as SWAT members closed in. Trooper Tony Radulescu was a 16-year veteran of the agency.
Read More →Trooper Brian Salyer was pursuing a group of riders on Japanese sport bikes when the riders cut him off, causing his cruiser to crash. The bikers clapped and laughed as the trooper lay bleeding and pinned inside his vehicle.
Read More →The crash disabled the patrol car with a broken axle. The wrong-way car was able to drive away. It continued to Interstate 5, still going the wrong direction before it broke down.
Read More →Trooper Scott Johnson, the Washington State Patrol officer who was shot in the back of the head early Saturday, left the hospital Monday with bullet fragments remaining in his head from the incident.
Read More →Seattle-area law enforcement agencies are asking social-media users to “Tweet Smart” during emergencies, to help public safety responders keep everyone safe.
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