Virginia State Police graduates 126th generation of new troopers

The Commonwealth graduated its 126^th generation of Virginia State Troopers on Friday.

The 30 new troopers received more than 1,600 hours of classroom and field instruction in more than 100 different subjects, including defensive tactics, crime scene investigation, ethics and leadership, survival Spanish, police professionalism, firearms, judicial procedures, officer survival, cultural diversity and crisis management.

The members of the 126^th Basic Session began their 29 weeks of academic, physical and practical training at the Academy March 23, 2017.

Upon graduation, the new troopers will report to their individual duty assignments across Virginia beginning Oct. 10, 2017, for their final phase of training. Each trooper will spend an additional six weeks paired up with a Field Training Officer learning his or her new patrol area.

 

New Trooper	Hometown	Assignment
Garrett Wayne Albright	Prince George	Prince George
Zachary Thomas Beaver	Victoria	Accomack
Dennis Robert Bicking, Jr.	Springfield	Arlington
Mark Allen Blankenship	Evington	Northampton
Jay Matthew Boone	Bluefield	Northampton
Lisa Anne Brooks	Lynchburg	Dinwiddie
Billy Kendall Brown	Clintwood	Prince George
Edward Aloysius Burns, III	St. Augustine, Florida	Arlington
Harold Lee Campbell Nathaniel Cole Chester	Staunton Jonesville	Rockingham Greensville
Justin Curtis Clack	Lewiston, Idaho	Arlington
Nathaniel Andrew Dayes	Vinton	Arlington
Joshua Wayne Fowler	Lafayette, New Jersey	Frederick
Matthew John Fox	Roxbury, New Jersey	York
Devin Ryan Goode	Fluvanna	Hanover/Henrico
Christopher William Greene	Stanley	Warren
Mikel Nasef Hana	Richmond	Henrico
Dustin Lee Hayden-Gross	Marion	Dickenson
David Brent Jackson	Gloucester	New Kent
Jose Arturo Macedo	Clifton, New Jersey	Hanover/Henrico
Charles Gerard McKenna, II	Northport, New York	Henrico
Donald Thomas Murphy	Virginia Beach	Norfolk/Virginia Beach
Charles William Patton, Jr.	Dillwyn	Nottoway
Devon Taylor Saul	Gates, North Carolina	Portsmouth/Suffolk/Chesapeake
Jordon Ryan Sluss	Honaker	Tazewell
Alfred Daniel Smith, III	Smithfield	Sussex
John Gregory Sullivan	Stafford	Caroline
Edward Aaron Taylor	Brooklyn, New York	Chesterfield
Isaac Najee Thomas	Roselle, New Jersey	Arlington
Steven Andrew Thompson	Roanoke	Arlington

Virginia State Police welcomes its 127^th Basic Session on Oct. 25, 2017. State Police is still accepting applications for its Accelerated Lateral Entry Program (ALEP) which begins in April 2018, as well as for those new to a law enforcement career. Information on both the ALEP and the standard Virginia State Police Trooper-Trainee Academy is available at www.virginiatrooper.org.