To pay a Uniform Traffic Ticket, you must make a payment to the city or county in which the ticket was issued. You can learn more about the process, step-by-step at the South Carolina Court Payments webpage here.

Note – these citations begin with the numbers 2025.

If you need to identify your ticket number, visit the South Carolina Judicial Branch's Traffic Ticket Search webpage here.  You can also contact your local Highway Patrol office if you were stopped by a Trooper. You can find the contact information for each Highway Patrol office at the SC Highway Patrol Troop Contact page here.

If you are engaging in discovery for a criminal case written by a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper (Rule 5/Brady motion), please serve the Trooper as shown on the Uniform Traffic Ticket at the appropriate Troop office. Read more information about this process here.

Contact the courthouse at which your case was scheduled. This information is on your citation.

If you lost your FR10 (mandatory insurance verification form), please contact the appropriate troop office where the incident occurred.

If you are involved in a collision and wish to obtain a copy of the collision report (TR-310), you may request it through the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. Find more information about obtaining a collision report here.

According to the South Carolina Code of Laws Section 56-5-1270, the driver or owner of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident that is not investigated by law enforcement that results in total property damages of one thousand dollars or more or in death or bodily injury, shall complete a Traffic Collision Report Form FR-309 and send the form to the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles within 15 days of the collision. 

The FR-309 is a form for the driver or owner of a vehicle to complete if your vehicle was involved in a collision of any kind and the collision was never reported to a law enforcement agency. SCHP cannot investigate collisions that were not reported to law enforcement after the incident. In this case, the motorist must complete the FR309 and submit to the SCDMV. 

You can obtain the Traffic Collision Report Form FR-309 on SCDMV's website here.

If your vehicle was towed by an SCDPS Officer (Highway Patrol, State Transport Police or Bureau of Protective Services), you may contact the local Highway Patrol office located in the county where your vehicle was towed. However, please understand they may have to call the appropriate Telecommunications Center (TCC) to find this information. If your vehicle was towed by another law enforcement agency, we will not have this information.

Troopers of the Highway Patrol of the Department of Public Safety must frequently call upon a wrecker service to tow or remove abandoned, damaged, disabled, or wrecked motor vehicles from the highways of the state and accident scenes. Accordingly, to ensure a fair, equitable and impartial rotation among competing wrecker services, each Highway Patrol Troop within the Highway Patrol Division establishes a zone or zones for towing certain damaged, disabled, or wrecked motor vehicles from the highways and accident scenes, and must prepare, maintain and use wrecker rotation lists for each towing zone in accordance with applicable law. Further, to ensure the delivery of quality and courteous wrecker services to the motoring public at reasonable costs, it is the policy of the department to enforce the law, regulations, and standards relating to wrecker services by means of fair and equitable disciplinary procedures and, when necessary for enforcement purposes or to protect the public, by administering appropriate disciplinary measures. Read more information about wrecker regulations here.

Note – these citations begin with the letters WA, which is displayed on the lower right-hand corner of the citation.

To pay a citation for size, weight, and safety violations, visit the State Transport Police's Uniform Size, Weight, Idling, and Safety Online Citation Payment portal here.

You can view all load restricted bridges in the state on the SC Department of Transportation's interactive map here.

Yes. Although STP officers specialize in commercial motor vehicle enforcement, they also enforce state traffic laws for non-commercial drivers regularly.

The SC Highway Patrol can enforce state traffic laws for commercial motor vehicles.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) handles all concealed weapons permits (CWPs) in the state of South Carolina. Please visit SLED's CWP webpage here for the latest information. SLED's CWP hotline is 803-896-7015 or you can email cwpquestions@sled.sc.gov.

As a reminder, there are areas where it remains unlawful to carry a firearm or dangerous weapon on State House grounds. Despite the passage of the South Carolina Constitutional Carry/Second Amendment Preservation Act of 2023, it's important to remember that South Carolina Code Section 10-11-320(A) still applies and prohibits carrying a firearm or dangerous weapon on State House grounds.

As indicated in the map below, the State House grounds include the area in downtown Columbia between Gervais Street, Sumter Street, Pendleton Street, and Assembly Street.

Additionally, visitors to the Governor’s Mansion are also prohibited from carrying a firearm or dangerous weapon onto the grounds.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol offers community outreach and education programs to help address unsafe driving behaviors before they occur. SCHP’s Community Relations Officers conduct 900 safety presentations on average each year to schools, civic organizations, and companies around the state. 

SC Highway Patrol offers several types of programs to educate the public on the dangers of impaired driving, driving distracted, and speeding, as well as the importance of wearing a seat belt and staying alert behind the wheel. You can read more about these community outreach programs and request a safety talk here.

The DRIVE 2 ZERO (D2Z) Program is one of the State Transport Police’s outreach and education initiatives that aim to address unsafe driving behaviors before they occur, especially in and around commercial motor vehicles. Each year, more than 8,000 participants get to experience what it is like to drive impaired or distracted behind the wheel. Read more about the Drive 2 Zero Program here.

If you would like to submit an official commendation for a trooper or an officer from our agency, you may do so through our online commendation portal here.

The FOIA process is outlined on our FOIA webpage here. You may also e-mail the FOIA office at FOIA@scdps.gov.

DPS charges reasonable costs for providing documents or information and may not release information until payment in full is received. Fees are subject to change.

Fees may be waived or reduced if it is determined that the waiver or reduction is in the public interest because the information is considered as primarily benefiting the general public.

Find out more about the fees for requested documents here.

To explore careers available at any of our DPS law enforcement agencies: South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP), State Transport Police (STP), or Bureau of Protective Services (BPS), please visit the careers webpage here. 

If you are interested in a career as a telecommunications operator, please visit the telecom careers webpage here.

If you are interested in available DPS non-sworn/civilian positions, please visit the South Carolina Careers website here.