Alabama Highway Patrol

The Alabama Highway Patrol is a division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety and is the highway patrol agency for Alabama, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Alabama.
In 1971, the Alabama Highway Patrol became the first U.S. police organization to use down-sized vehicles for regular highway patrol duties when 132 AMC Javelins were purchased. This pre-dated, among others, the Camaros and Mustangs that were used by other departments years later. The Javelins came with AMC V8 engines, and one of the original cars is now part of the Museum of DPS Headquarters.
==Rank Structure==
The Alabama Department of Public Safety rank structure is as listed:
Rank 	Insignia
Colonel 	
Lieutenant Colonel	
Major 	
Captain 	
Lieutenant 	
Sergeant 	
Corporal 	
Trooper 	
==Fallen officers==
Since the establishment of the Alabama Highway Patrol, 28 officers have died in the line of duty. The following list also contains officers from when the Alabama Highway Patrol was renamed the Alabama Department of Public Safety.
Officer 	Date of Death 	Details
Patrolman Maury Young 	Saturday, September 5, 1936 	Motorcycle accident
Patrolman William D. Raiford Sr. 	Saturday, October 16, 1937 	Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Arvil O. Hudson 	Tuesday, May 20, 1952 	Vehicle pursuit
Patrolman Henry Preston Bryant 	Sunday, December 7, 1952 	Vehicle Pursuit
Patrolman Julian F. Draughon 	Saturday, October 3, 1953 	Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Howard Brock 	Friday, November 8, 1957 	Vehicle pursuit
Patrolman Joe F. Partin 	Monday, July 25, 1960 	Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Anthony Scozzaro 	Wednesday, December 13, 1961	Automobile accident
Captain Thomas E. Maxwell 	Thursday, October 4, 1962 	Automobile accident
Sergeant Raymond M. Carlton 	Saturday, February 27, 1965 	Automobile accident
Trooper Randolph G. Glover 	Wednesday, July 19, 1967 	Automobile accident
Trooper Brooks D. Lawson 	Thursday, July 31, 1969 	Struck by train
Corporal Thomas O. Gillilan 	Wednesday, July 1, 1970 	Gunfire
Corporal Harlan B. Blake 	Saturday, October 10, 1970 	Vehicle pursuit
Auxiliary Trooper Ormand Franklin Watkins	Sunday, April 11, 1971 	Gunfire
Corporal Riley Delano Smith 	Friday, December 17, 1971 	Electrocuted
Trooper James B. Robinson 	Sunday, December 10, 1972 	Gunfire
Trooper Bobby S. Gann 	Thursday, February 21, 1974 	Gunfire
Trooper Kenyon M. Lassiter 	Friday, April 19, 1974 	Vehicular assault
Sergeant Julian Douglas Stuckey 	Thursday, June 27, 1974 	Automobile accident
Trooper Johnnie Earl Booker 	Thursday, November 2, 1978 	Automobile accident
Trooper David E. Temple 	Thursday, September 13, 1979	Gunfire
Trooper Simmie L. Jeffries 	Friday, December 21, 1984 	Automobile accident
Trooper Larry D. Cawyer 	Saturday, May 25, 1985 	Automobile accident
Trooper Elizabeth S. Cobb 	Sunday, October 11, 1987 	Gunfire
Trooper Robert William Jones 	Thursday, October 3, 1991 	Automobile accident
Trooper Willis Von Moore 	Monday, February 26, 1996 	Automobile accident
Trooper Brian Keith Nichols 	Sunday, February 17, 2002 	Automobile accident
==Other notable officers==
James Bonard Fowler became a significant player in escalating the acute racial conflict that led to the Selma to Montgomery marches in the American Civil Rights Movement. As a corporal in the Alabama State Police in 1965, he shot and killed an unarmed black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, a killing that went without justice for 45 years.
==See also==
* List of law enforcement agencies in Alabama
* State police
* State patrol
* Highway patrol
==References==
==External links==
* Alabama Highway Patrol website
* Alabama Department of Public Safety website
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