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Kansas Highway Patrol outlines reorganization, staffing gaps and proposed traffic law changes
Summary
Merle Riedel and Colonel Eric Smith updated the Committee on Transportation on Jan. 13 about KHP reorganization into bureaus, current sworn‑officer vacancies (about 67 below target), VIN inspections and proposed statutory amendments including clarifying reckless driving thresholds.
Merle Riedel, Executive Officer for the Kansas Highway Patrol, told the Committee on Transportation on Jan. 13 that the Highway Patrol recently reorganized to consolidate protective services, investigative operations and technical operations under executive commanders and to move administrative services under a civilian deputy secretary for business operations.
Riedel said the reorganization grouped Capitol Police, executive protection and homeland‑security grant administration into a new Protective Services Bureau and created an Investigative Operations Bureau to centralize VIN inspections, criminal interdiction and a new Troop O felony investigations unit. He said Troop N focuses on interdiction to disrupt drug, human‑trafficking and violent‑crime activity on state roadways.
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