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Technology

Online Campaign Vows To Keep Vt. Pig Decals

Remember the pig hidden within the decal on the doors of some Vermont State Police cruisers? There's now a movement under way to keep it there.

February 12, 2012

Patrol

Inmate Adds Pig Image To Vermont Police Cruiser Decals

State officials Thursday pointed to the failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans to detect a prisoner-artist's addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo. A spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig.

February 2, 2012

Patrol

Vermont Officer Talks Jumper Off Bridge

Burlington (Vt.) Police Officer Laura Pezzulo convinced a suicidal man perched on the Main Street bridge Saturday night not to jump to his death.

January 7, 2012

Weapons

Mass. and Vermont Troopers Get Smith & Wesson M&P Pistols

Massachusetts troopers will receive the M&P45 pistol, while Vermont troopers will get the M&P40 pistol. Troopers are currently using M&P pistols in the field.

December 15, 2011

Vehicle Ops

Vermont State Police Acquire Lenco G3 Armored Truck

The Vermont State Police have acquired a Lenco G3 armored truck that the agency will make available to city and county law enforcement agencies who may face an active shooter, high-risk warrant subject, or barricaded suspect.

November 6, 2011

Weapons

Vermont State Police Revise TASER Policy

The Vermont State Police has agreed to make changes to its policy covering the use of TASERs that would require troopers to give "special consideration" to those who have cognitive impairments.

October 21, 2011

Patrol

Vermont Cop Retains Job After DUI

A Winooski (Vt.) Police officer will retain his job, following a drunk driving conviction, the agency has announced. City Manager Katherine Decarreau declined to say whether Cpl. Jason Nokes would remain on administrative leave, go back on patrol, or work in some other role.

October 5, 2011

Patrol

Motorcycle Violator Hit 137mph, Crashed Into Homeless Encampment

A motorcyclist attempting to elude a Vermont state trooper reached a top speed of 137mph during a pursuit that ended when he crashed into a homeless encampment.

May 2, 2011

Patrol

Shots Fired: Bloomfield, Vermont 08/19/1997

New Hampshire State Trooper Charles West halted a town's troubled resident who had killed two officers and a newspaper editor during a murderous rampage while armed with an AR-15 and ballistic vest.

February 24, 2011

Patrol

Booby Traps

Often engineered with little more than rudimentary know-how, real world booby traps may lack the sophisticated engineering of those in the "Saw" films, yet prove every bit as lethal.

June 29, 2010

Training

Hartford (Vt.) Police Department

Slicing through the rolling hills and quiet villages of Vermont’s Upper Valley are the dual black-ribbon roadways of interstates 89 and 91. Stretching from the Canadian border into New Hampshire and Connecticut, respectively, the robust thoroughfares form the backbone for travel in western New England.

August 31, 2005