calsfoundation@cals.org
March 10, 2012
The Arkansas State Police is the state’s primary statewide law enforcement agency. The agency was established in 1935 due to the continuing increase in traffic fatalities and the need to enforce the newly enacted liquor laws after the state legislature voted to end Prohibition. At the start of the twenty-first century, the state was protected by six state trooper companies consisting of almost 1,000 officers and civilian workers.