National Crime Victims Rights Week: How the SC Highway Patrol Victim Services Unit is a voice for the voiceless
Mon, 04/07/2025
On a shelf in Crystal Salley’s office sits a candle decorated with a photo of four smiling children — all siblings, and all of them killed in a…Saving lives, and helping others turn their lives around: STP officer says he's just 'doing what I should be doing'
Fri, 03/28/2025
Master Officer Don Turner has never expected a pat on the back. Not for lugging boxes of soft drinks as a delivery driver for Pepsi, for taking drunk…Womens History Month: ‘I hope it paves the way for other women,’ SCHP’s first female captain says of service
Fri, 03/21/2025
Major Tara Craig never took offense to being called “Sir” during a traffic stop or collision investigation. She chuckled when the person realized…‘Honor has no expiration date’: Greenville County highway renamed for SCHP trooper killed in 1950
Thu, 03/13/2025
Two worn trooper badges and a folded American flag are among the only things Brenda Sealy Sumner has to remember the father she never knew. She was…‘I have to help people’: Retiring BPS officer ponders what’s next after 27 years of protecting, serving, and comforting
Tue, 03/11/2025
Over the past 27 years, Master Officer Chris Kirkpatrick has helped protect some of the most powerful leaders in South Carolina: From legislators at…From the roadside to the classroom, SC trooper takes education to a new level as a substitute teacher
Fri, 02/28/2025
Every South Carolina state trooper plays an important role in the education of the public. But Corporal William Safford takes it a step further — by…From typewriters to smartphones: SCHP’s Patricia Sloan reflects on 37 years at Troop 1 HQ
Thu, 02/13/2025
Thirty-seven years may seem like a long time to get up and go work at the same place every day. But for Patricia Sloan — who saw the Highway Patrol…‘I thought I was already dead’: STP officer makes inspiring comeback after rare, deadly lung disease
Fri, 02/07/2025
Master Officer Tyrone Williams knows he shouldn’t be here — not after a bout with Legionnaires’ Disease that plunged him into a coma for two weeks,…‘I must have done something right’: SCHP trooper who guarded three governors retires after 22 years
Mon, 01/13/2025
Very few people have the huge opportunity — and responsibility — of protecting the lives of the governor and the first family. For 22 years, Captain…SCHP’s Debbie Gillis says goodbye after 15 years as Colonel’s right-hand woman
Fri, 01/10/2025
When Debbie Gillis first applied for a position at the SC Highway Patrol in 2009, she already had four decades of work experience under her belt and…