The Oregon State Police (OSP) is much more than just a highway patrol, providing public safety services that are critical to our partners and making a difference every day for the citizens of Oregon. Below are some examples of the work performed by OSP in a typical day, impacting Oregonians where they live, work, travel and play:
Troopers in the Patrol Division
- Respond to 552 calls for service.
- Stop 650 motorists for traffic safety offenses.
- Issue 346 citations for speed, safety belt, and other hazardous violations, and issue 198 warnings.
- Conduct 50 regulatory truck inspections.
- Remove 13 alcohol and/or drug impaired drivers from Oregon’s highways.
- Make over 27 non-traffic criminal arrests for offenses such as identity theft, weapons offenses, drug offenses, and fugitive warrants.
- Recover stolen vehicles and other stolen property valued at $3,294.
- Seize 2.24 pounds of illegal drugs, with a cash value of $145,213.
- Respond to over 53 motor vehicle crashes on state and interstate highways.
- Assist 50 stranded or disabled motorists along state and interstate highways.
- Reconstruct at least one fatal crash, for an OSP investigation of for another agency.
- Provide one K-9 assist to assist an investigation of suspected drug trafficking cases.
- Provide transportation safety enforcement in five Traffic Safety Corridors and 64 construction zone areas.
Detectives and staff in the Criminal Investigation Division
 Update 94 Sex Offender Registration records.- Respond to 57 requests for information from the public and law enforcement agencies regarding registered sex offenders in Oregon’s communities.
- Investigate 4 new allegations of child physical or sexual abuse.
- Administer 2 polygraph examinations involving criminal allegations.
 Respond to 2 calls for assistance on unidentified deceased persons or missing adults. - Seize 1952 illegal marijuana plants.
- Seize 13 kilos of processed marijuana.
- Seize 1 kilo of methamphetamine.
- Seize 40 tablets of Ecstasy.
- Respond to 2 new calls for assistance on fire and explosives investigations.
- Recover and destroy 296 pieces of discarded ammunition, blasting caps and military ordnance.
- Seize 6 pounds of dangerous illegal fireworks and other high explosives.
Also in the Criminal Investigation division
- 21 members of the Counter Terrorism Section are working to respond to and handle calls related to explosives, arson, and domestic or international terrorism.
- 22 Detectives are out in the field working to disrupt or dismantle drug trafficking organizations on a local, interstate and international level.
- 44 Major Crimes Detectives are conducting child physical and sexual abuse investigations, major crimes investigations, assault investigations, and identity theft investigations.
- Each day OSP is prepared for the potential for a major incident requiring an OSP SWAT team callout or an activation of OSP’s Mobile Response Team (MRT).
Telecommunicators in Dispatch Centers
 
- Receive and respond to 2300 calls for service and assistance from citizens and law enforcement.
Scientists and Staff in the Forensics Division
- Receive 70 requests for forensic analysis.
- Complete analyses for 10 blood alcohol or toxicology cases related to impaired driving.
- Complete analyses for 4 DNA cases relating a suspect or victim in a criminal investigation.
- Complete analyses for 2 cases involving a firearm.
- Process a crime scene and assist in a major crime investigation every third day.
- Confirm substances in 19 drug cases for criminal prosecution.
- Process or analyze 6 sets of latent prints, connecting suspect fingerprints to criminal activity.
- Examine physical evidence in 2 sexual assault cases.
- Provide 10 toxicological tests for the medical examiner assisting with cause of death determination.
- Provide testimony in 2 criminal trials or hearings.
- Provide evidence collection and preservation training to law enforcement officers throughout the state.
Troopers in the Fish and Wildlife Division
- Are responsible for patrolling 96,002 square miles of land area, which equates to more than 1,000 square miles per trooper; 6,150 lakes; 111,619 miles of rivers and streams; 72,400 square miles of ocean; and 296 miles of coastline.
- Come into contact more than 800 citizens to inspect hunting and fishing licenses.
- Handle 4 traffic crashes.
- Investigate 10 criminal complaints.
- Investigate fill activities, hazardous materials spills, and unlawful water diversions. Provide assistance to six outside (non-Oregon State Police) agencies each day.
- Check 60 boats to ensure safety and lawful operation.
- Provide assistance to the Oregon Department of Agriculture to ensure that people do not harvest shellfish that are contaminated with an unsafe level of natural toxins, which can be deadly when consumed.
Physicians and Staff in the Office of the State Medical Examiner
 Perform two to three autopsies and commence an in-depth death investigation in each case.- Appear in court to provide expert testimony related to a death investigation in a murder trial, providing an opinion about how the injuries occurred, the position of the victim, the time of death and other details.
- Respond to numerous calls from family members seeking information about a deceased loved one.
- Respond to inquiries and request from various law enforcement agencies and district attorneys offices for which the medical examiner is the sole source for death investigation services.
- Interact with county medical examiners who call to ask about toxicology tests and to ask for autopsies.
- Attend a county or state child fatality review meeting or mass fatality planning.
- Lecture to medical students and pathology residents occur several times a year.
- Interact with Oregon Tribe members about archeological remains of Native Americans.
Staff in the Identification Services Section
- Process 519 arrest fingerprint cards.
- Process 18 criminal justice applicant fingerprint cards.
- Respond to 19 “copy of own record” inquiries for the public.
- Respond to 5 requests for subject immediate identifications.
- Process 736 court dispositions putting closure to each arrest event.
- Set Aside 25 records of arrest or conviction.
- Process 2 deceased subjects fingerprints.
- Provide 255 Regulatory fingerprint background checks.
- Provide 17 Clearinghouse fingerprint background checks for non-profit, non-regulated organizations.
- Provide 110 “Open Records” public name-based background checks
- Provide 49 Concealed Handgun License fingerprint checks to assist county Sheriffs in their regulatory function of licensing persons applying to carry a concealed weapon.
- Process 400 instant background checks on persons seeking to purchase a firearm.
- Conduct 26 stolen gun check services for citizens.
- Assist law enforcement with 4 investigative inquiries for criminal cases involving firearms.
- Provide public fingerprinting services to 20 customers.
Staff in the Office of State Fire Marshal
- Assist 12 community-based networks that intervene in youth-set fires.
- Promote education of elementary and middle school youth on fire survival, fire prevention and making fire smart decisions
- Inspect childcare centers serving 55,779 children.
- Inspect licensed care facilities housing 43,316 people.
- Inspect schools serving 599,351 children.
- Send Hazardous Substance Information Surveys to approximately 22,000 facilities.
- Provide hazardous substance reporting assistance to approximately 4,000 stakeholders via the Hazardous Substance Information Hotline.
- Data enter approximately 130 surveys submitted by facilities reporting on the Hazardous Substance Information Survey.
- Conduct 4 survey review audits with facilities by telephone.
- Conduct fee review audits to assist facilities requesting a review of their Hazardous Substance Possession Fee.
- Conduct on-site audits to ensure facility compliance with Oregon Community Right to Know and Protection Act.
- Conduct a Community Right to Know reporting requirement workshop to assist facility operators to meet the requirements of the Oregon Community Right to Know and Protection Act.
- Respond to requests for hazardous substance information.
- Manage and coordinate 14 Regional Hazardous Material Emergency Response Teams.
- Train fire department personnel and other partners to implement smoke alarm installation program at the local level.
- Pilot test providing smoke alarms designed for the deaf and hard of hearing (fire department personnel install).
- Manage and coordinate three Type 2 Incident Management Teams.
- Manage and coordinate one Urban Search Rescue Task Force.
- Dispose of illegal fireworks.
- Receive and approve or deny certifications submitted by 5 cigarette manufacturers to ensure cigarettes coming into Oregon are fire standard compliant.
- Issue pyrotechnician certifications and administer pyrotechnician exams.
- Issue 6 licenses to companies and their employees that work with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
- Inspect 2 residential LPG tanks to ensure tanks were installed safely and correctly.
- Inspect 2 Oregon cardlock facilities to ensure compliance with laws and codes.
Staff in the LEDS, OERS, and Oregon Uniform Crime Reporting Sections
 Process an average of over 3500 records in the Oregon Uniform Crime Reporting System. - Provide notification on 5 hazardous material spills to DEQ, ODFW, PCC, SFM and OHD.
- Coordinate 3 search and rescue related incidents, requiring air support and canine search teams.
- Relay weather-related communication from the National Weather Service to 9-1-1 centers around the state.
- Track 1 Radioactive Waste Shipment traveling through Oregon via internet website, from Hanford, Washington to Carlsbad, New Mexico..
- Process 10 LEDS training certifications allowing users to access LEDS and national criminal justice systems.
- Transfer information and respond to inquiries related to -
- 10 Oregon registered vehicles reported stolen
- 45 vehicles reported stolen in Oregon.
- 30 locates of persons wanted on felony warrants
- 230 warrants cleared daily (misdemeanor and felony)
- 6 locates of missing persons
- 12 stolen vehicles recovered
- 1 expensive article or equipment retrieved
- 1 stolen gun retrieved
- 2 stolen boat motors retrieved
- 30 matches on unidentified persons forensic data
- 30 filings of unidentified persons forensic data without matches
- 2,800 interagency APB messages
- 25,800 driver license checks
- 2,250 Oregon driver license photo checks
- 110 persons of interest entered on officer safety issues
- 320 impounded vehicles
- 110 notifications of persons released from state prisons
- 3 notifications of persons released from federal prisons
- 90 supervised persons released from corrections systems
- 780 criminal history background checks.
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