08/25/11 The Indiana State Police had the following enforcement activity for July 2011.  The Bremen State Police Post covers Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph Counties. Traffic tickets issued                         1,150 Warnings issued                                 1,770 D.U.I. arrests                                              23 Criminal arrests                                       117 Speeding Trucks (over 10,000...
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08/12/11 On Tuesday, August 2, the Indiana State Police Department held an awards and recognition ceremony in Indianapolis.  The ceremony honored and recognized individuals from around the state for their dedication to service, bravery and devotion to the department, and to the citizens of Indiana.  Those individuals honored were employees of the Indiana State...
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07/28/11 In 1933 Indiana’s first troopers patrolled the roads on motorcycles.  They were issued either a Harley Davidson or Indian motorcycle.  A trooper in the early 1930’s might patrol upwards of 100,000 miles per year on a motorcycle on mostly unpaved, unpredictable roads in all kinds of weather.  This continued until 1939 when the...
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06/28/11 Last October 60 individuals began training at the 70th Indiana State Police Recruit Academy in Plainfield to become state troopers.  On Monday, June 20, 2011 forty-three of those recruits successfully completed the required training.  In total they have completed nearly nine months of training.  Monday marked the culmination of the training when they...
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06/23/11 The Indiana State Police had the following enforcement activity for May 2011.  The Bremen State Police Post covers Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph Counties. Traffic tickets issued                          1,547 Warnings issued                                   2,249 D.U.I. arrests                                               32 Criminal arrests                                          71 Speeding Trucks (over 10,000 lbs)   24 Trooper Brian Hoffman, Marijuana Eradication Team...
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06/03/11  The Indiana State Police had the following enforcement activity for April 2011.  The Bremen State Police Post covers Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph Counties.  Traffic tickets issued                         1,314 Warnings issued                                  2,306 D.U.I. arrests                                              29 Criminal arrests                                      107 Speeding Trucks (over 10,000 lbs)   29
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06/01/11  Indiana State Police Sergeant Chad Larsh has announced that the state police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint in Kosciusko County.  The checkpoint will start during the evening hours of Thursday, June 2, 2011 and end during the early morning hours of Friday, June 3. Motorists are encouraged to have their driver’s license...
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05/09/11  The Indiana State Police had the following enforcement activity for March 2011.  The Bremen State Police Post covers Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph Counties. Traffic tickets issued                          1,331 Warnings issued                                  2,208 D.U.I. arrests                                              27 Criminal arrests                                       119 Speeding Trucks (over 10,000...
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05/06/11 On Thursday, April 28, 2011 commercial motor vehicle enforcement personnel from the Indiana State Police and Michigan State Police participated in a combined enforcement project aimed at improving the safety of commercial motor vehicle traffic. The enforcement effort focused on major interstate highways within the two states. 87 enforcement personnel focused their efforts...
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05/02/11  A traffic stop in St. Joseph County by Indiana State Police Senior Trooper Mick Dockery and his K-9 partner Hondo started out as nothing more than routine on Wednesday, April 27.  That was until Hondo sniffed out crack cocaine inside the car they had stopped.  This drug find was only one of many...
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