What is the Division of Alaska State Troopers?”
The Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST) is charged with statewide law enforcement, prevention of crime, pursuit and apprehension of offenders, service of civil and criminal process, prisoner transportation, central communications, and search and rescue. The Division is divided into five detachments and two bureaus. Detachments A, B, C, D, and E, and Alaska Bureau of Investigation (ABI), and Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement (ABADE). Each Detachment is charged with Division responsibilities within a specific geographic area. Each Bureau is responsible for the statewide discharge of their specific duties and overall responsibilities. Both Detachments and Bureaus are responsible for ensuring efforts are made towards meeting the Division’s core missions as it relates to their respective enforcement programs, public education, training, fiscal planning and implementation. The Alaska State Troopers’ eight core missions in meeting these responsibilities as stated in the 2008-2
The new TV show focusing on Alaska State Troopers has received mixed reviews as drama, but critics have agreed on one thing: Alaskans often seem to be drunk when they commit crimes or hurt themselves in accidents. That observation confirms that the new National Geographic series deserves its billing as a “reality” show. Alaskans are, in fact, often too drunk to behave responsibly and legally. A few of them are now providing evidence to the world of this unfortunate blight within our state, and the national media has noticed. The New York Times review of the series opened by describing troopers responding to a report of a Fairbanks woman who was “extremely 10-56” — police code for being drunk in public. “On the evidence of ‘Alaska State Troopers,’ … the 49th state as a whole is extremely 10-56,” the reviewer wrote.
