Nevada Highway Patrol Incidents: The Impact on Nevada Communities

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The Nevada Highway Patrol has a vacancy rate of nearly 45%, with the state budget allocating for 392 trooper positions but only 218 filled. This shortfall has led to reduced proactive enforcement on the roads, potentially impacting public safety. (News 4 & Fox 11) — The ongoing shortage of Nevada Highway Patrol troopers has reached critical levels, the union representing troopers says, with the vacancy rate rising and the. The ongoing shortage of Nevada Highway Patrol troopers has reached critical levels, the union representing troopers says, with the vacancy rate rising and the agency still unable to cover graveyard shifts in the Reno area. Nevada could traffic fatalities in 2024 than in years past, said police and traffic safety advocates who gathered Thursday at the Nevada Highway Patrol ’s Las Vegas office to. LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An alarming increase in vacancy rates among Nevada Highway Patrol State Troopers has state Department of Public Safety officials calling on state legislators for more. The campaign follows a report showing traffic fatalities up more than 16 percent in Nevada in the first two months of the year. The state’s Office of Traffic Safety funded the joint campaign between Nevada Highway Patrol and participating law enforcement. It runs April 1-19. The Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Program removes incidents from Nevada’s highways and restores normal travel operations as safely and quickly as possible. NDOT, NSP, and multiple local agencies partner to: Safe and quick clearance of traffic incidents. Prompt reliable and interoperable communications. Economic vitality by reducing delays. State law was supposed to prohibit the Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) from confiscating every penny of Stephen Lara’s life savings when they pulled him over for a routine traffic stop in 2021. However, by outsourcing its dirty work to the federal government, that’s exactly what NHP was able to do.