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2021

WSP celebrates its 100th anniversary with several events and activities including a parade of vintage vehicles and reenactments of early traffic contacts. January 6th insurrection in Washington DC coincides with protestors…

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2020

Dubbed COVID-19, a novel respiratory disease first reported in China in late 2019 spreads quickly around the world and by spring of 2020 has impacted every phase of WSP operations.…

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2019

Government and Media Relations hired the agency’s first full-time tribal liaison, increasing state criminal justice protective and investigative resources for reporting and identifying missing Indigenous persons in the state. Washington State…

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2018

State Initiative 940 is passed requiring all law enforcement in the state to receive violence de-escalation, mental-health, and first-aid training, and provide first-aid; and change standards for use of deadly…

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2017

The construction of the Helen Sommers building is completed. The Helen Sommers building becomes the new WSP headquarters (HQ). WSP staff start moving out of the General Administration (GA) building…

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2016

On February 23rd, a section of SR-16 was renamed Trooper Tony Radulescu Memorial Highway, to honor “Trooper Tony” who was killed on the highway four years earlier. On March 25th, Governor…

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2015

106 commissioned personnel left the agency and by December the agency had 160 commissioned personnel vacancies. The fire season in 2015 proved to be even worse than the 2014 fire…

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2014

On Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 10:37 am a major mudslide occurred four miles east of Oso, WA, on SR530, between the towns of Darrington and Arlington. The slide killed…

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2013

The Fire Training Academy became its own Division within the Fire Protection Bureau. Lean was implemented in Washington State Agencies, after Governor Jay Inslee signed an executive order urging state…

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2012

The 100th Trooper Basic Training Class started on June 18th and graduated on December 14th with 37 cadets. In November, the Regional Auto Theft Units were re-established in Pierce, King,…

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PO Box 42600
Olympia, WA 98504

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Helen Sommers Building
106 11th Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98501

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