State police hiring in full swing | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal: "As of late May, the agency was nearly halfway to completing that mandate — 84 new troopers have been hired, and other conditional job offers are pending, said Renee Bryant, the director of OSP employee services and organizational development.
None of the new hires are yet on the road.
But hiring 200 new troopers is just one step in bringing back staffing levels to what they were before massive layoffs hit the agency in 2003, Deputy Superintendent Gregory Willeford said."