For Alaska State Troopers and other police departments across the north, the fur trapper hat is iconic. The State Department of Public Safety buys about 50 of them a year – and is looking for a ...

HELENA - If that Montana Highway Patrol officer seemed to look a little different lately, there's a reason. The law enforcement agency is changing hats. Gone are the familiar military-style ...

Joshua Barner always knew that one day he’d become a police officer, perhaps even before he sat near the grave of his father, a state trooper, proudly wearing dad’s wide-brimmed Stetson hat ...

Scores of state highway troopers, usually found on roadways across Texas in their distinctive cowboy hats and black-and-white patrol vehicles, have descended on Austin, the state capital.