Alaska Bureau of Highway Patrol
The Alaska State Troopers, Alaska Bureau of Highway Patrol is responsible for coordinating and/or conducting traffic law enforcement, fatal and major incapacitating injury collision investigations statewide, and for responding to enforcement and investigative requests by other agencies.
Most team members are Alaska State Troopers. Three of the team members are officers with local police departments and the D.O.T. Commercial Vehicles Enforcement section. ABHP traffic teams deploy from Fairbanks, Mat-Su West, Soldotna and Girdwood.
Mission
- Traffic safety
- Impaired driver enforcement
- Aggressive driving and speeding enforcement
- Youth driver education and enforcement
- Occupant protection enforcement
- Remote highway patrol for vehicles in distress
- Public education
- Enforcement of state traffic laws and regulations
- Enforcement of all state laws and regulations during traffic enforcement patrols
- Review and update of Title 13 regulations.
Vision
Zero deaths. Everyone counts.
