Press Releases

With the beginning of prom season, the North Carolina the Highway Patrol will conduct Operation “Drive to Live” during the week of April 18,  2016.  The operation will be conducted from 6:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. each day.

A multi-car pile-up or a blazing chemical fire can put North Carolina’s telecommunicators to the test.  They are trained to remain calm and communicate clearly as they relay information to first responders.  Because of them, lives are saved and calamities controlled.

Governor Pat McCrory and officials with the Department of Public Safety today during an open house offered community leaders and elected officials their first view of the renovated Edgecombe Youth Development Center in Rocky Mount.

The State Highway Patrol and NCDOT are once again teaming up in its annual Spring Litter Sweep campaign.

Death row inmate Jerry Cummings, 76, died Saturday at a Chapel Hill hospital of natural causes.
 
Cummings was first convicted in 1987 in Robeson County and receive

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT: State Emergency Response Commission Meeting

The 19-member SERC is responsible for protecting the state’s citizens and environment through effective emergency planning.
Note: Several new commissioners will be sworn in at the Friday meeting.

The State Highway Patrol responded to a fatal head-on collision in Wake County earlier today.

Today, the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons (NCCMP) will be honoring 10-year old Karen Le from the Boys and Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County with the Center’s prestigious Bring Our Missing Children Home state trophy.

State prison inmates are getting some valuable on the job training at the National Guard Joint Force Headquarters dining facility that is hoped to be a recipe for success.

Media Advisory: Meeting of Governor’s Task Force on Safer Schools Set for Next Wednesday in Raleigh

Steering Committees Meet on Tuesday, April 5